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SpaceX · Hawthorne, CA · Production · first seen 2026-07-31

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Top Secret Clearance (Starlink)

SpaceX operates Starlink, the world's largest satellite constellation providing fast, reliable broadband internet to 9M+ users globally. You'll solve challenges that improve utilization of our deployed hardware and provide customers with the best possible satellite internet experience, especially in under-served communities.

What you will do

  • Upgrade existing distributed systems to become sharded and geo-redundant across multiple data centers
  • Advance deployment, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure to support multi-region environments
  • Manage petabyte-scale bare metal compute clusters
  • Collaborate with engineers across all programs to create highly operable, scalable, and maintainable products
  • Engage throughout the full software development lifecycle of services from inception to design, deployment, operation, and iterative refinement
  • Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques

Required qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline plus 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
  • Active Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance

Preferred experience

  • 5+ years of rigorous experience with site reliability or DevOps
  • Kubernetes and Istio for on-premise deployment
  • In-stream data processing and analytics using Apache Kafka, Spark, HBase, HDFS, Flink
  • Troubleshooting hardware and network-layer issues
  • Programming in Python, C#, Java, Scala, Go or similar languages
  • Version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment and monitoring

Additional requirements

  • Willing to work extended hours and weekends when needed
  • Active Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance. If assigned to sensitive SpaceX missions, subject to pre-employment drug testing and random drug and alcohol testing
  • Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, Refugee, or Asylee, or eligible to obtain required authorization from the U.S. Department of State per ITAR regulations

Compensation

Base salary range for Level 3: $165,000 to $265,000 annually, determined case-by-case based on job-related knowledge, skills, education, and experience.

Total rewards include long-term incentives in company stock or cash awards, discretionary bonuses, employee stock purchase plan, comprehensive medical/vision/dental coverage, 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, 3 weeks paid vacation, 10+ paid holidays per year, and paid sick leave per company policy.

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