simspace-corporation - Staff Software Engineer
Requirements
• 6-8 years of experience; a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science is preferred, but an equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered. • Experience designing, building, automating, and supporting complex infrastructure or cybersecurity environments at a scope consistent with Staff-level engineering. • Advanced enterprise-networking and troubleshooting capability across routing, switching, segmentation, firewalls, NAT, DNS, DHCP, VPNs, proxies, and multi-hop traffic paths. • Hands-on experience with Windows Server and Active Directory—including domain, authentication, authorization, DNS, Group Policy, certificates, or trusts—and with Linux administration across multiple distributions. • Production experience with Ansible, Packer, VMware vCenter, and at least one additional hypervisor, virtualization platform, or cloud environment. • Experience integrating enterprise security technologies and practical knowledge of offensive and defensive workflows, security telemetry, and ICS/OT architecture and constraints. • Proficiency with Git and evidence of improving automated validation, testing, security, versioning, and release practices for infrastructure code, configuration, or virtual-machine images. • Demonstrated ability to lead ambiguous technical initiatives across teams, influence senior technical stakeholders, mentor and delegate to engineers, communicate with technical and nontechnical audiences, and balance implementation detail with product, customer, and business outcomes. • Equivalent combinations of education, professional experience, certifications, and demonstrated technical achievement will be considered. • Experience developing cyber ranges, digital twins, training environments, simulation platforms, or representative enterprise networks. • Experience with Kubernetes, containers, routing software, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, artifact management, or automated security scanning. • Experience working with both offensive- and defensive-security teams or supporting disconnected, restricted, regulated, or high-security environments. • Relevant networking, security, Linux, Windows, virtualization, cloud, or ICS/OT certifications. • TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT • Ansible, Packer, VMware vCenter, Git, Windows Server, Active Directory, Linux, enterprise networking, security tooling, and ICS/OT technologies. • We’re proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive package designed to support your well-being, growth, and success:
Responsibilities
• Set technical direction for reusable cyber ranges and make explicit trade-offs among realism, security, reliability, scalability, usability, performance, maintainability, customer outcomes, and near-term delivery. • Improve Ansible and Packer architecture, standards, and automation so configurations and images are modular, idempotent, testable, versioned, secure, dependency-aware, safe in their handling of secrets and errors, repeatable, and resistant to drift. • Design and troubleshoot complex virtual networks, VMware-based infrastructure, Windows Server and Active Directory, Linux systems, identity services, security tooling, and relevant ICS/OT environments. • Diagnose failures across networks, operating systems, virtualization, images, blueprints, automation, platform services, and security products using packet-level and system-level evidence. • Identify gaps between range requirements and platform capabilities, develop bounded interim solutions, and partner with Product, Platform Engineering, Security, and other Staff and Principal Engineers on sustainable long-term outcomes and broader platform strategy. • Strengthen repository, review, automated build and validation, release, documentation, runbook, and support-handoff practices across team-owned work. • Lead cross-team technical decisions, create standards and automation that can benefit teams beyond RATM, communicate dependencies and risks early, mentor engineers, delegate meaningful ownership, and reduce single-person dependencies.
Benefits
• $185K – $260K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • This helps us reference you correctly throughout the hiring process. • or drag and drop here • Please enter your complete legal address, including street address, city, state/province, postal code, and country. This information may be used in employment-related documents. • SimSpace's Applicant Privacy Policy • Located in the middle of the page. • By clicking “I Agree” below, you: • (a) acknowledge that the personal data, including sensitive personal data, which SimSpace collects from and about you during the recruitment process will be handled in accordance with SimSpace’s Applicant Privacy Notice; and • (b) consent to SimSpace’s collection, use, disclosure, and international transfer of your personal data, including sensitive personal data as described in that Notice. • To keep your interview experience seamless and distraction-free, we use an AI Notetaker to record and transcribe our interviews. This helps interviewers focus fully on the conversation and ensures your responses are captured accurately. The recording will only be used internally for evaluation. If you would prefer not to be recorded, you can opt out on this page. Opting out will not impact your candidacy in any way. • Yes, I consent to be recorded • Opt out of recording • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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