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About SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the mission of enabling humans to become a multi-planetary species. It operates the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles, as well as the Starlink satellite internet constellation.
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JOB TITLE: Site Reliability Engineer — HPC & Automation (Silicon Engineering)
As a Site Reliability Engineer on the Silicon Engineering team, you will design, operate, scale, and automate high performance computing infrastructure used to develop chips for the Starlink satellite constellation. You will work with cross-disciplinary teams to deploy and maintain clusters, manage infrastructure as code, and develop automated turnkey solutions for silicon simulation workflows. Your daily work involves operating continuous integration pipelines, managing build and release systems, and identifying performance bottlenecks to accelerate design iterations and regression turnaround times. Required skills include Linux operating systems and development experience with Bash and Python. Preferred qualifications include experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Slurm, Terraform, Ansible, and databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL. You will solve technical problems regarding infrastructure health and ASIC design flow automation.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?
Median $180200 from 121 postings across 36 companies.
Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale the suite of high-performance computing clusters and services.
Develop automated, full turnkey solutions for silicon simulation workflows to accelerate project timelines.
Manage underlying infrastructure as code and utilize modern observability tools to monitor cluster health.
Operate continuous integration pipelines, build and release systems, and version control across the environment.
Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks using measurement and creative engineering techniques.
Design, operate, and scale high-performance computing infrastructure for chip development and simulations.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience in system administration, high performance computing, or site reliability engineering.
1+ years of development experience with Bash, Python, and/or other programming languages.
1+ years of experience with Linux operating systems.
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for required Department of State authorizations.
Familiarity with containerization technologies (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes) (preferred).
Knowledge in computer system concepts (computer architecture, computer organization, operating systems and concurrency) (preferred).
Experience with high performance computing and workload managers (e.g., Slurm, LSF) (preferred).
Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar automation frameworks (preferred).