This role pays more than
81%
of similar roles. Most pay
$137,500–$206,500
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$215k
versus about
$172k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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.
SpaceX currently has
680 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$130,000–$165,000
across 442 roles with salary data.
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink) joins the Starlink program team to solve technical challenges that maximize the utility of deployed satellite hardware and improve the broadband internet experience for global users. This role involves upgrading distributed systems to become sharded and geo-redundant across multiple data centers, managing petabyte-scale bare metal compute clusters, and advancing deployment, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure for multi-region environments. The engineer will collaborate across programs to create scalable products while focusing on performance bottlenecks throughout the software development lifecycle. Required skills include Linux operating systems and experience with Python, C#, Java, Scala, or Go. Preferred qualifications include Kubernetes, Istio, and data processing tools like Apache Kafka, Spark, HBase, HDFS, and Flink. The role addresses the technical challenge of maintaining a massive satellite constellation to provide reliable internet access to underserved communities.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 54 postings across 15 companies.
Site Reliability Engineering
DevOps
Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform
Ansible
Python
Go
C++
C
Bash
Linux
TCP/IP
Distributed Storage
Virtualization
Monitoring