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Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink)
SpaceX is deploying Starlink, the world's largest satellite constellation providing fast, reliable internet to over 9 million users globally. We design, build, test, and operate all parts of the system: thousands of satellites, consumer receivers, and the software that connects them.
As a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer on the Starlink program, you will solve challenges that maximize the utility of our deployed hardware and provide customers with the best possible satellite internet experience. You will have full ownership of challenging problems, working with a team of engineers to design and produce solutions that enable SpaceX to move toward its goals rapidly.
Responsibilities
- Upgrade existing distributed systems to become sharded and geo-redundant across 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
Compensation
Level 3: $165,000.00 - $265,000.00 base salary
Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.
Base salary is one part of your total rewards package. You may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Benefits include comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, 3 weeks of paid vacation, and 10 or more paid holidays per year.
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. Section 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. Section 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.