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of similar roles. Most pay
$142,500–$206,112
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At the midpoint, this role pays about
$215k
versus about
$174k
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 - Top Secret Clearance (Starlink)
As a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer on the Starlink program, you will join a team of engineers focused on optimizing and scaling the infrastructure for a global satellite broadband internet system. You will take full ownership of complex problems, including upgrading distributed systems to become sharded and geo-redundant across multiple data centers while managing petabyte-scale bare metal compute clusters. Your daily work involves advancing deployment, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure for multi-region environments and identifying performance bottlenecks throughout the software development lifecycle. The role requires proficiency in Linux operating systems and experience with Kubernetes, Istio, and open-source platforms like Apache Kafka, Spark, HBase, HDFS, and Flink. You will utilize programming languages such as Python, C#, Java, Scala, or Go to build highly operable products while troubleshooting hardware and network-layer issues for the satellite constellation.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 54 postings across 15 companies.
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 for the Starlink program.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline.
5 years of software development experience (or 7+ years of professional experience building software with site reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree).
Active Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance.
Experience with Linux operating systems.
5+ years of rigorous experience with site reliability or DevOps.
Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, C#, Java, Scala, Go, or similar.
Ability to meet ITAR requirements including U.S. citizenship, permanent residency, or other eligible status.
Site Reliability Engineering
DevOps
Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform
Ansible
Python
Go
C++
C
Bash
Linux
TCP/IP
Distributed Storage
Virtualization
Monitoring