Bringing space closer to Earth. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
Albedo builds and operates satellites in Very Low Earth Orbit. As IT & Security Engineer you own a wide surface alongside our IT and security lead: identity, endpoints, cloud infrastructure, network, detection and response, compliance obligations, and a long tail of SaaS. The team scales by turning process into code, and this role is measured by how much faster the rest of the company moves because of what you build.
What they're looking for
- Six-plus years across IT operations, infrastructure, or security engineering, with at least two where you owned production systems and were accountable when they broke
- Regularly uses AI tools as essential leverage to accelerate work, improve clarity, and multiply output, and verifies before shipping
- Depth in agentic engineering: agents that take real action against production systems, with the access control, observability, and evaluation needed to trust them, deployed as shared services the whole company can use
- Infrastructure as code is your default
- You build tools for other people, and you care whether anyone actually adopted what you shipped
- Judgment about blast radius. You know which changes are reversible in five minutes, and which ones are silently wrong for a quarter, and you slow down for the second kind
More about this role
Albedo is making Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) mainstream, building the infrastructure to enable every satellite mission to enter this new orbital domain. We build buses, integrated satellites, and turnkey missions for customers to thrive in VLEO, below 300 km, where proximity compounds performance and drag self-cleans debris.
As part of the first 100 employees at Albedo, you will have a big impact on Albedo’s trajectory to proliferating VLEO — whether you’re advancing hardware to increase satellite longevity, scaling production for large constellations, building next-gen flight and ground software to push performance, or enabling missions that matter for national security and our day-to-day life here on Earth.
How We Operate: Albedo takes a first-principles approach — in space and in business. We move with speed, take calculated risks, and learn quickly. We use AI regularly to create leverage in every discipline across the company. We work in-person at our Broomfield, CO HQ to maximize team and company productivity. We work hard and with urgency to compound our first-mover advantage.
Who We're Looking For: Builders who want to own outcomes, not tasks. Systems thinkers who balance...
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