Über diese Senior IT Engineer Stelle bei Muon Space
About the role
Muon seeks a Senior IT Engineer to join our IT team. The ideal candidate is a seasoned identity and access management (IAM) professional with a strong background in Okta. In this role you will own authentication and authorization across the organization—spanning SaaS applications, cloud environments, on-premises infrastructure, and user endpoints—while architecting scalable, secure identity solutions that keep pace with our rapidly growing company. You will focus on identity and access management, including access request workflows and access review systems, and help design authorization models that enforce our access restrictions for CUI, EAR, and ITAR data. Experience with Active Directory is a plus.
This position is onsite and requires working in our San Jose, CA office five days a week.
Responsibilities
- Own authentication across the organization, including SaaS applications, cloud environments, on-premises infrastructure, and user endpoints.
- Architect and continuously evolve our Okta environment to fit our needs while retaining the flexibility required by a fast-growing company.
- Design authorization models for each system that grant access on a least-privilege, as-needed basis.
- Build and maintain access request workflows and access review systems to streamline provisioning and periodic access certifications.
- Define and enforce access restrictions that protect CUI, EAR, and ITAR-controlled data.
- Administer and integrate identity across Okta, Active Directory, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365.
- Manage identity and access across AWS, GCP, and Azure cloud platforms.
- Partner with IT, Security, and business teams to align identity and access management with compliance and operational requirements.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of IT experience.
- Hands-on experience with Okta and identity management.
- Experience administering Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft 365.
- Experience with Google Workspace administration.
- Experience managing identity and access across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, and access governance, including access requests and access reviews.
- Proactive, reliable, and able to work with minimal supervision.
Nice-to-have Skills
- Experience supporting U.S. Government programs.
- Experience with CUI data handling.
- Experience with EAR/ITAR-controlled data handling.
- Active or eligible for a U.S. security clearance.
Salary
The salary range for this role is $165,000 - $184,000, plus a competitive equity grant and comprehensive benefits package. Final compensation will be determined based on skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location as assessed during the interview process.
About Muon Space
Founded in 2021, Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission-critical data. Our revolutionary, integrated technology stack enables customers to optimize every dimension of their missions for faster time-to-orbit and superior constellation remote sensing performance. Our state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Silicon Valley is optimized for manufacturing spacecraft and rapid, flexible payload integration at scale. From climate monitoring to national security, Muon Space is dedicated to delivering Earth Intelligence for a safer and more resilient world.
Taking Care of Our Team
At Muon salary is only part of our total compensation package. In addition to salary, full-time employees receive equity compensation as well as benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, short & long term disability and life insurance. We also offer three weeks paid vacation for new employees, along with 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time and paid parental leave.
Our mission embraces the entire planet and we believe our team should too. Muon is dedicated to creating a diverse and dynamic company and workforce. We believe in equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or gender identity. We value diversity in the workplace, and that starts with our applicants. We encourage you to apply, even if you don't check all the boxes, and we look forward to reviewing your application! In addition, if you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.
ITAR/EAR Requirements
This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. The Company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.