# Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Platform) at Northwood Space

- Company: Northwood Space
- What the company does: Take space missions further faster. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://www.northwoodspace.io
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Torrance, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $145K to $190K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-05
- Apply by: 2026-12-20
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/northwoodspace/87bd8fc1-54ea-4bda-90fc-95a956ea92f5?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/northwood-space-senior-infrastructure-engineer-platform/

## About the role

Own and operate all components of the cloud infrastructure stack: cloud accounts, hosted k8s clusters, CA, secrets, IAM, the observability pipeline. Take a defined scope and execute it without ongoing oversight. Build and maintain infrastructure as code. Define and implement GitOps practices and proper CI gates to test, audit, and approve infrastructure changes. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 2–7 years of production infrastructure experience (SRE, DevOps, platform, cloud, or systems engineering). See Levels below for what we expect across that range
- Depth in cloud: multi-account organizations, IAM, VPC networking, EKS or equivalent managed Kubernetes
- Strong IaC experience: state management, CI-driven plan and apply, working in a shared monorepo with other engineers
- Working competence across Linux, networking fundamentals, containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of a production system: design, implementation, operation
- On-call experience in a production environment with measurable reliability outcomes

Tags: Engineering

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