Senior Site Reliability Engineer

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Hawthorne, CARedmond, WA
Salary: $165,000–$265,000 / yr
Posted: 89 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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As a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer on the Starlink program, you will join a team of engineers dedicated to maximizing the utility of the world’s largest satellite constellation. You will take full ownership of challenging problems, focusing on upgrading distributed systems to become sharded and geo-redundant across multiple data centers. Your daily work involves managing petabyte-scale bare metal compute clusters, advancing deployment and monitoring infrastructure, and identifying performance bottlenecks. You will engage throughout the software development lifecycle to create scalable products. Required skills include Linux operating systems and an active Top Secret clearance. Preferred experience includes Kubernetes, Istio, Apache Kafka, Spark, HBase, HDFS, and Flink, alongside programming proficiency in Python, C#, Java, Scala, or Go to support high-performance satellite internet services.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $202800 from 62 postings across 16 companies.

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Skills

DevOps Kubernetes Istio Python C# Java Scala Go Apache Kafka Spark HBase HDFS Flink Linux Version Control Distributed Systems Monitoring

What you'll do

Upgrade existing distributed systems to become sharded and geo-redundant across multiple data centers.
Advance deployment, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure to support a multi-region environment.
Manage petabyte-scale bare metal compute clusters.
Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks using various performance improvement techniques.
Engage throughout the entire software development lifecycle from inception to iterative refinement.
Design and produce solutions that ensure products are highly operable, scalable, and maintainable.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or 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.
Active Top-Secret or Top-Secret SCI clearance.
U.S. citizenship, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee status as required by ITAR.
5+ years of rigorous experience with site reliability or DevOps (preferred).
Experience with Kubernetes and Istio for on-premise deployment (preferred).
TOP SECRET CLEARANCE (STARLINK).

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