About the Role

Firestorm builds uncrewed aircraft and the manufacturing network that produces them: full-capability plants, deployable xCell edge factories, and forward-deployed sites that stand up production near the point of need.

Crucible is the software that runs that manufacturing network. It runs across commercial cloud, government cloud, factory, and air-gapped environments, with infrastructure that has to support rapid development, secure deployment, and reliable production operation.

We are hiring a Senior or Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to expand the Infrastructure team supporting Crucible. You will help shape how Crucible runs in the cloud, working directly with software engineers to design, build, secure, and operate the platform as it grows.

What You'll Do

• Design Crucible's cloud platform - Work with software teams to define the infrastructure, services, networking, and deployment patterns behind Crucible capabilities.
• Build cloud infrastructure - Develop and operate Kubernetes, cloud services, networking, and infrastructure across development and production environments.
• Own infrastructure as code - Build and evolve Terraform, Helm, and GitOps workflows.
• Build secure cloud solutions - Design identity, access, network boundaries, secrets, and other cloud controls alongside platform security.
• Improve developer velocity - Work across infrastructure and Crucible repositories to improve deployment, environments, tooling, and development workflows.
• Make production reliable - Build observability, recovery, deployment safety, and operational tooling for Crucible.
• Support complex deployments - Help extend the platform across commercial cloud, GovCloud, and on-premise or disconnected environments.

Required Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance
• 6+ years of cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE experience with production systems; with a proven track record of success
• Deep experience with cloud architecture and operating production cloud environments
• Deep experience operating Kubernetes in production
• Strong Terraform and infrastructure-as-code fundamentals
• Strong cloud networking, Linux, identity, and security fundamentals
• Experience building CI/CD, deployment, and GitOps systems
• Experience with production observability and debugging distributed systems
• Strong software engineering or scripting skills, including the ability to work across application and infrastructure code
• Demonstrated ability to design cloud solutions from ambiguous product and engineering requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS and AWS GovCloud
• Experience with Helm, Argo CD, and service mesh technologies such as Istio
• Experience designing secure multi-account or multi-environment cloud architectures
• Experience with IAM, OIDC/OAuth2, secrets management, PKI, or workload identity
• Experience deploying containerized systems into on-premise or air-gapped environments
• Experience building infrastructure for an early or rapidly scaling software platform

Work Environment

• This role is based in San Diego, CA.
• We welcome candidates who are local or open to relocating; relocation assistance is available and may be included in the offer package where appropriate.

Compensation

US Salary Range: $175,000 - $195,000 USD

The posted salary range reflects an estimate based on a variety of compensation factors, including but not limited to relevant experience, education, certifications, specialized skills, geographic location, and business needs. Actual compensation may vary, and this range is subject to change as our compensation structure or market conditions evolve.

Benefits & Perks

Our culture fosters collaboration, respect, and trust, empowering passionate people to do their best work. We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for career growth. In addition to an opportunity to take part in an innovative, collaborative and fast-growing business with a highly motivated and skilled team, we also take pride in taking care of our employees. Here are just a few ways that we show our appreciation:

• We offer comprehensive medical, dental, and visions plans
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan to invest in your long-term retirement goals
• Equity grants for new hires
• Unlimited PTO
• Extremely generous company holiday calendar, including a holiday hiatus in July & December.
• Generous Parental Leave
• Lifestyle Spending Account
• FSA
• DCFSA
• HSA
• Hospital Indemnity insurance
• Critical Illness insurance
• Accident insurance
• Basic Life/AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance, 100% covered by Firestorm. Plus, the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your family.
• Mental Health Resources: We provide free mental health resources 24/7 including therapy and more. Additional work-life services, such as free legal and financial support, are available to you as well.