Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink) Verified today
About the Role
As a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer on the Starlink program, you will solve challenges that improve utilization of deployed hardware and deliver the best satellite internet experience to customers worldwide, including underserved communities.
You will have full ownership of complex problems, working with a team of engineers to design and deliver solutions at rapid pace. Your work directly enables SpaceX to advance toward its mission goals.
Responsibilities
- Upgrade existing distributed systems to become sharded and geo-redundant in multiple data centers
- Advance existing deployment, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure to support a multi-region environment
- Manage petabyte scale bare metal compute clusters
- Closely collaborate with engineers across all programs to create highly operable, scalable, and maintainable products
- Engage throughout the whole software development lifecycle of services -- from inception to design, deployment, operation, and iterative refinement
- Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline and 5 years of software development experience; OR 7+ years of professional experience building software with site reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree
- Experience with Linux operating systems
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 5+ years of rigorous experience with site reliability or DevOps
- Experience with Kubernetes and Istio for on-premise deployment
- Experience with in-stream, data processing and analytics using open source platforms such as Apache Kafka, Spark, HBase, HDFS, Flink
- Experience troubleshooting hardware and network-layer issues
- Programming experience in Python, C#, Java, Scala, Go or similar languages
- Good understanding of version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment and monitoring
Additional Requirements
- Willing to work extended hours and weekends when needed
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State per ITAR regulations
Compensation
Level 3: $165,000 - $280,000 base salary, plus long-term incentives, discretionary bonuses, and employee stock purchase plan. Benefits include comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, 401(k) retirement plan, disability and life insurance, paid parental leave, 3 weeks paid vacation, and 10+ paid holidays annually.