We're building a new team to own Radiant's internal data infrastructure, executive analytics, and AI capabilities. As the Staff DevOps Engineer, you'll own the infrastructure that powers our data platform—ensuring reliability, security, and scalability for the systems that connect Finance, HR, Supply Chain, and Recruiting.
You'll work closely with the Software Engineering team on shared Databricks infrastructure, ensuring that operational analytics and reactor simulation workloads coexist smoothly. You'll also own CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and security compliance for our data systems.
Own infrastructure: Deploy and manage Databricks, Fivetran, Airbyte, and supporting infrastructure on AWS
Administer Databricks: Manage workspaces, clusters, Unity Catalog, and SQL Warehouses (shared responsibility with SWE team)
Build CI/CD pipelines: Automate deployments for dbt models, connector configurations, and dashboard updates
Monitor and alert: Set up Datadog (or similar) for pipeline monitoring, data quality alerts, and infrastructure health
Ensure security compliance: Implement infrastructure that meets ITAR/EAR requirements; work with IT/Security on access controls, audit logging, and network configuration
Support the team: Enable Data Platform Engineers to ship quickly with reliable, well-documented infrastructure
7+ years of DevOps or infrastructure engineering experience
AWS experience—EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, and related services (Radiant is AWS-based)
CI/CD pipeline development—GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar
Infrastructure as code—Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
Scripting and automation—Python, Bash, or similar
Databricks administration experience—workspaces, clusters, Unity Catalog, SQL Warehouses
Experience in regulated environments—SOC 2, FedRAMP, ITAR, or similar compliance frameworks
Experience with data pipeline monitoring and observability (Datadog, Monte Carlo, etc.)
Familiarity with Fivetran, Airbyte, or similar data integration tools
Experience supporting data engineering or analytics teams
Mission: Clean energy that can go anywhere—few problems matter more
Team: Work alongside exceptional people from SpaceX, Blue Origin, and other top engineering organizations
Compensation: Competitive compensation with equity
Benefits: Health/dental/vision, 401(k), and flexible PTO
Ownership: You'll own the infrastructure for a critical new team—not maintaining someone else's system
Modern stack: Databricks, Fivetran, dbt, Datadog—best-in-class tools
This position requires the ability to work in the United States and eligibility for access to export-controlled information under ITAR/EAR.
Stock: Substantial incentive stock plan for all full-time employees.
Medical: 100% up to base silver level plan for employee + 50% dependents, offers up to Platinum plans.
One Medical: Sponsored memberships for employees and their dependents.
Vision: 100% top tier plan coverage + 50% for dependents.
Dental: 100% top tier plan coverage, orthodontia extra, 50% for dependents.
Voluntary life, accident, hospital, critical illness, commuter and FSA/HSA are offered as employee contributed benefits.
8-weeks of paid parental leave for all parents. Additional paid pregnancy leave for CA employees.
Daily catered lunch. Free snacks and drinks.
Flexible PTO policy. Remote workday allocation.
Company and team-bonding events, happy hours and in-person camaraderie.
Beautiful El Segundo headquarters close to the Pacific Ocean.
Total Compensation and Benefits
Radiant compensates people for impact and invests in those who continue to raise the bar. Radiant’s new hire compensation package includes base salary, substantial equity grants, and comprehensive health benefits. Total compensation and level are determined through a rigorous evaluation of interview performance, experience, education, and qualifications, and are designed to support continued growth as scope, responsibility, and impact expand at Radiant.
The best of today’s advanced reactor builders don’t wait for job postings. They join the winning team. If that’s you, contact us directly for immediate opportunities: recruiting@radiantnuclear.com.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.
This position involves access to technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.