2 months ago
Hawthorne, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$125k - $195k/yr
Responsibilities
- Participate in an on-call rotation and conduct sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
- Manage HPC node lifecycles, including operating system images, firmware, configuration management, kernels, and drivers through infrastructure as code.
- Build cluster, node, storage, and job/workflow observability for administrators and end users.
- Automate operational work and reduce toil while balancing production operations with software development.
- Manage compute and storage resources and lead capacity planning with users across the company.
- Collaborate with HPC systems engineers and other engineering teams to deliver reliable, maintainable infrastructure.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a scientific discipline, or at least two years of professional production-infrastructure experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least two years of professional experience with Linux operating systems in production.
- At least two years of experience operating production servers, services, or networks, including monitoring, debugging, and repair.
- Preferred experience includes at least two years in SRE, DevOps, or production infrastructure engineering.
- Preferred experience includes monitoring and alerting, configuration management or infrastructure as code, scripting, containers, Kubernetes administration, distributed or high-performance storage, and HPC or GPU computing.
- Preferred familiarity includes scientific computing, ML training, AI inference, and schedulers such as Slurm, PBS, or LSF.
- Must be eligible for access to classified material up to TS/SCI with polygraph.
- Must be able to work primarily on-site in Hawthorne, California, participate in on-call coverage, and work extended hours or weekends when required.
- Must satisfy SpaceX ITAR eligibility requirements or be eligible to obtain required authorizations.
Benefits
- Base salary range is $125,000-$160,000 for Level 1 and $145,000-$195,000 for Level 2.
- Potential eligibility for company stock or long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Medical, vision, dental, 401(k), disability, life insurance, paid parental leave, discounts, and other perks are provided.
- Employees may accrue three weeks of paid vacation and receive 10 or more paid holidays annually, along with paid sick leave under company policy.
- The position is primarily on-site in Hawthorne, California, with on-call participation and extended hours or weekends as needed for incidents and time-critical failures.
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches orbital rockets and spacecraft, and operates Starlink, a global satellite internet network for consumers, businesses, and governments. Its revenue comes from commercial and government launch services (Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy, Dragon cargo and crew to the ISS) and subscription broadband with Starlink hardware and service. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Hawthorne, California, the privately held company serves NASA and commercial satellite operators, building most systems in-house.