This role pays more than
83%
of similar roles. Most pay
$137,500–$206,500
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$218k
versus about
$172k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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.
As a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink), you will join the Starlink team to solve complex challenges that improve the utilization of deployed hardware and enhance the satellite internet experience for global users. You will be responsible for 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. Your daily work involves identifying performance bottlenecks and collaborating with engineers throughout the software development lifecycle to create scalable products. The role requires proficiency in Linux operating systems and experience with Kubernetes, Istio, and data processing tools like Apache Kafka, Spark, HBase, HDFS, or Flink. You will utilize programming languages such as Python, C#, Java, Scala, or Go while managing hardware and network-layer issues to ensure high system availability.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?
Median $186200 from 131 postings across 36 companies.
Site Reliability Engineering
DevOps
Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform
Ansible
Python
Go
C++
C
Bash
Linux
TCP/IP
Distributed Storage
Virtualization
Monitoring