Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Fully remote from Italy (office space available in Turin). Candidates must reside or be willing to relocate to Italy for tax and legal compliance purposes. No visa sponsorship.
Type: Full-time
Salary range: €50,000–€60,000
Starting Date: September 2026

Who we are

Ecosmic is on a mission to reduce threat exposure in space by building software for Space Situational Awareness.

We are a high-tech, data-driven space start-up, bringing together an international team of engineers and computer scientists. We move fast, think deeply, and care about building things that matter.

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to package in-house algorithms into easy-to-use, reliable, and secure products. You will empower space engineers with software that facilitates the development of both new and existing algorithms.

How we work

We work in small, cross-functional teams where software and space engineers collaborate closely, and where everyone is empowered to take ownership of their work. We value open collaboration and mutual trust, creating an environment where people can grow continuously and feel genuinely valued.

We are an async-first organization. Most of our communication happens in writing, and we prioritize clarity, documentation, and thoughtful responses over real-time meetings.

We intentionally keep meetings to a minimum. We believe that deep, focused work is essential, and we design our workflows to protect it.

We care deeply about doing excellent work and holding a high bar for quality, while recognising that sustainable performance depends on well-being. We actively protect work–life balance and design our way of working to support it.

We trust people to own their work and make decisions, but that trust comes with a strong expectation of accountability and proactivity: taking initiative, following through, and continuously raising the bar.

A glimpse of our tech stack

• Python for our backend, FastAPI for APIs, and C++/Rust for performance-critical components

• DynamoDB and S3 for storage

• AWS serverless services (Fargate, Lambda), with infrastructure-as-code via Terraform

• GitHub, Jira, Slack, and Confluence for collaboration

At the same time, we’re actively rethinking parts of our stack. We’re exploring a shift from C++ to Rust to improve developer experience and make our core logic more resilient, and we’re moving toward a more cloud-agnostic setup built on Kubernetes.

We provide a MacBook Pro (M5 Pro) as company laptop.

What we’re looking for

• 7+ years of experience

• Experience in shipping products in a start-up environment, enabling rapid iteration while maintaining a reliable and secure platform

• Strong judgement in balancing trade-offs between scalability, maintainability, and speed

• Proven ability to improve and optimise technical workflows and team practices

• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and infrastructure-as-code

• Experience working closely with product and business teams in a B2B context

• Excellent communication skills and a passion for mentoring and knowledge sharing

• Proficiency in English, with fluency in both spoken and written communication being an absolute must

• Experience in on-premise or hybrid deployments of services and their orchestration with Kubernetes

What you’ll work on

Contributing to long-term initiatives such as, but not limited to:

• Unlocking on-premises deployment of space algorithms with Kubernetes

• Continuously improving the developer experience of your teammates (software and s