Senior Software Systems Engineer

Role: Senior Software Systems Engineer Location: San Diego, CA (in-office) Salary Range: $165,000 - $220,000 /yr + stock options, 401k matching, and other benefits Role Overview: Seasats' vehicles run on software that has to reach them reliably, wherever they are. From packaging new capabilities for shipping, to the pipelines that build, version, and deliver them to vehicles at sea, that foundation has to scale as we scale our fleet and our customer base. We're looking for a Senior Software Systems Engineer to build and own that foundation: release engineering, software and vehicle packaging, and the tooling that lets every engineering team at Seasats ship confidently. If you like being the person other engineers rely on to get software and vehicle updates out the door cleanly, this is a great fit. Role Details: As a senior member of the team, you'll help set technical direction for our infrastructure and raise the bar for reliability across the company. On a day-to-day / week-to-week basis, you will: Own the end-to-end delivery process for our software and vehicle software: versioning, build artifacts, packaging, and staged rollout Define and maintain our delivery pipelines, including build automation, artifact packaging, versioning schemes, and pre-launch qualification Implement and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or similar) to keep build and deployment environments consistent and repeatable Build tooling to track rollout health and support rollback and recovery when a deployment doesn't go as planned Harden our packaging and delivery processes for security, reliability, and cost efficiency as our fleet and customer base scale Act as the integration point between vehicle software, cloud services, and third-party systems, making sure new builds and packages work together end-to-end before they ship Support and improve developer experience by streamlining environments, tooling, and workflows for the engineering org Support production systems and, at times, active vehicle missions Support deployment automation and packaging tooling used across the engineering org About You: 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, release engineering, or platform roles, ideally owning delivery and packaging processes at scale Strong experience with cloud infrastructure and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) Deep understanding of Linux systems internals, packaging formats, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) as deployable units Experience building and maintaining delivery pipelines and build/packaging automation (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar) Experience with versioning schemes and artifact repositories (semantic versioning, package registries, or similar) Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash for automation and tooling Demonstrated ability to independently scope and lead infrastructure projects Systems-level thinking: comfortable tracing how software, firmware, and…