AST SpaceMobile is building the first and only global cellular broadband network in space to operate directly with standard, unmodified mobile devices based on our extensive IP and patent portfolio and designed for both commercial and government applications. Our engineers and space scientists are on a mission to eliminate the connectivity gaps faced by today’s five billion mobile subscribers and finally bring broadband to the billions who remain unconnected.
Position Overview
We are looking for SRE/DevOps to join our AST’s Telco Software Development team to design and develop innovative telco software solutions and components. This is a hands-on engineering role for engineers who are motivated by building genuinely novel software in a fast-moving, greenfield environment. You will be embedded in a small, high-ownership team where your code ships into real network infrastructure, and where the technical decisions you contribute to will directly shape AST’s long-term differentiation. Candidates may come from a software engineering background (strong systems and backend, ideally with telecom exposure) or from other related engineering domains with solid software development skills.
Key Responsibilities:
Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent professional experience.
Experience:
A minimum of 3+ years of DevOps/SRE production experience – exposure to telecom or network related development projects is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications:
Soft Skills:
Technology Stack:
Deployment & Container Orchestration:
- Kubernetes (EKS, on-premises)
- Helm, Kustomize (package management and templating)
- ArgoCD, Flux (GitOps continuous deployment)
Infrastructure & IaC:
- Terraform, CloudFormation (infrastructure-as-code)
- AWS: EC2, ECS, EKS, VPC, networking
- Linux
CI/CD & Version Control:
- Azure pipelines, GitLab CI (declarative pipelines)
- Git (version control, branching strategies)
Observability & Monitoring:
- Prometheus, Grafana (metrics collection and visualization)
- ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for logging
- Datadog, New Relic (APM and distributed tracing)
Telco Infrastructure:
- 3GPP standards and specifications
- RAN: gNodeB, eNodeB, CU/DU split architectures
- 5G Core: 5GC, network slicing, service-based architecture (SBA)
- LTE Core: EPC, MME, SGW, PGW
- OSS/BSS platforms and network management systems
Programming & Scripting:
- Python, Bash, Go
- REST API design and integration
Physical Requirements
This job description may not be inclusive to the duties and responsibilities listed. Additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time or the scope of the job may change as needed by business demands.
AST SpaceMobile is an Equal Opportunity, at will Employer; employment is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
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AST SpaceMobile is building the first space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard smartphones.