# Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Platform Engineering at Xona Space Systems

- Company: Xona Space Systems
- What the company does: Xona develops satellite navigation services delivering positioning, navigation, and timing data via a Low Earth Orbit network. Backed by NGP Capital.
- Company website: https://xonaspace.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Burlingame, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $145K to $170K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-23
- Apply by: 2026-11-07
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/xona-space/5f9603fa-1412-480e-a2bb-f8b85778094f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/xona-space-systems-cloud-infrastructure-engineer-platform-engineering/

## About the role

Own cloud operations : You'll run our environments, from alpha to production, on AWS and Kubernetes. Your team helps software engineers scale their services, plan capacity needs, release often, and optimize costs. You empower different software teams by embedding security and infrastructure best practices into their workflows.

## What they're looking for

- Strong infrastructure or SRE engineer who gets excited about running systems at scale and making them better every day
- Strong Kubernetes experience, including production operations, deployment tooling, networking, IAM, and GitOps patterns on hyperscale vendors, on-premises experience (OpenShift/etc) is also a plus
- Thoughtful about how testing/release workflow design affect system reliability in a microservices architecture
- Experienced with container orchestration (Kubernetes/etc), infrastructure-as-code (OpenTofu/Terraform/etc), and cloud networking
- You have great instincts for observability, and your alerts or dashboards caught real problems (OpenTelemetry experience is a plus). You understand what makes for effective tooling for a rapidly scaling software team
- You're opinionated about how to automate processes, maintain complex systems, and safely ship

Tags: Engineering