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This role pays more than
84%
of similar roles. Most pay
$142,500–$215,000
— the blue band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$218k
versus about
$179k
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
851 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$130,000–$165,000
across 590 roles with salary data.
As a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink), you will join the Starlink program team to improve the ability to fully utilize deployed hardware for a global broadband internet system. You will have full ownership of challenging problems, working with engineers to design and produce solutions that ensure high operability and scalability. Your daily responsibilities include upgrading distributed systems to be sharded and geo-redundant, managing petabyte scale bare metal compute clusters, and advancing deployment, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure for multi-region environments. You will utilize Linux operating systems and potentially work with Kubernetes, Istio, Apache Kafka, Spark, HBase, HDFS, and Flink. The role requires programming in Python, C#, Java, Scala, or Go to solve performance bottlenecks and manage the software development lifecycle for satellite internet services.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $202800 from 62 postings across 16 companies.
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