Staff Network Development Engineer, IT

Staff Network Development Engineer, IT

At Relativity Space, we're building rockets to serve today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that's just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.

Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven't been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you're in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you'll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we're writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it's early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.

About the Team

The IT team is responsible for the full scope of computing infrastructure, end-user systems, servers, virtualization, cloud, networking, software services, telecommunications, and information security. You'll support every function across the company, from the production floor to flight operations, enabling Relativity's world-class team to design, build, and launch rockets. The team balances near-term execution with long-term vision, developing scalable solutions and processes to enable the company's growth. The evolving complexity of our IT environment offers opportunities to stretch and sharpen problem solving and hands-on technical skills. We invest in our people, encouraging ownership, cross-training, and advancement, so our team can grow as fast and ambitiously as the company itself.

About the Role

We are seeking a Staff Network Development Engineer with strong automation / programming skills to deliver tooling and capability supporting the design, build and configuration control / management of Relativity Space's network infrastructure. You will work closely within your team of network engineers and peer teams to automate network operations, deliver on tooling capability integrating with systems, and maintaining an up-to-date source of truth. This role is ideal for candidates with a demonstrated experience delivering network services as code.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement automated workflows for network provisioning and management.
• Maintain and enhance source of truth documentation repository.
• Develop integrations between network systems and other internal tools (e.g., monitoring, logging, asset management)
• Collaborate with network engineering to translate designs and configurations into code.
• Troubleshoot and resolve network issues, supporting both automation and traditional network infrastructure.
• Write and maintain clean, scalable, and well-documented code.
• Participate in peer code reviews and maintain best practices in version control (Git) Contribute to the development and enforcement of network standards, policies, and best practices.
• Maintain, enhance and build CI/CD pipelines for network configuration and infrastructure deployments.

About You

• 3+ years of experience in network engineering working in multi-vendor environments (Arista, Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper, etc.)
• 3+ years of experience with network automation toolsets, specifically Ansible, Jinja2, NAPALM, Netmiko, Terraform
• Demonstratable experience in Python scripting
• Demonstratable experience with routing, switching, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, firewalls, NAT, etc • Demonstratable experience working with APIs (RESTful) to interface with network devices and platforms
• Demonstratable experience using version control systems like Git
• Demonstratable experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
• Experience with NetBox or similar network source-of-truth platforms
• Experience integrating with Azure, AWS, etc.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice to Haves But Not Required

• Experience in aerospace industries
• Experience with multicast
• Experience with precision time protocol

Hiring Range: $163,000 - $215,600 USD

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.