Senior Site Reliability Engineer

SpaceX

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Work type
On-site
Location
Palo Alto, CA
Salary
$165,000–$280,000 / yr
Posted
45 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $222k
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This role pays more than 86% of similar roles. Most pay $137,500–$206,875 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $222k versus about $172k for comparable roles.

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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.

SpaceX currently has 680 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $130,000–$165,000 across 442 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink) joins the Starlink program team to solve complex challenges involving the utilization of deployed hardware for a global broadband internet system. 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 technical challenges in providing reliable satellite internet to underserved communities by ensuring high operability and performance for the underlying software infrastructure.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $214000 from 54 postings across 15 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Upgrade distributed systems to become sharded and geo-redundant across multiple data centers.
  • Advance deployment, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure for multi-region environments.
  • Manage petabyte-scale bare metal compute clusters.
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks using various improvement techniques.
  • Participate in the full software development lifecycle from inception to iterative refinement.
  • Design and produce scalable, maintainable products in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline and 5 years of software development experience.
  • 7+ years of professional experience building software with site reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree.
  • Experience with Linux operating systems.
  • 5+ years of rigorous experience with site reliability or DevOps.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and Istio for on-premise deployment.
  • Experience with data processing and analytics using platforms like Apache Kafka, Spark, HBase, HDFS, or Flink.
  • Programming experience in Python, C#, Java, Scala, Go, or similar languages.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, or eligible for required export control authorizations.

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