SpaceX

Site Reliability Engineer (Application Software)

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3 months ago
Hawthorne, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$125k - $195k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale mission-critical products and services.
  • Manage infrastructure as code and use observability tools to monitor application health.
  • Collaborate with software engineers to design and build operable, maintainable, and testable systems.
  • Improve the software development lifecycle from design through deployment, operation, and continuous refinement.
  • Practice sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.
  • Provide end-user support to vehicle software engineers.
  • Participate in the team’s on-call rotation.
  • Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks through measurement and engineering.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline, or 3+ years of professional SRE or DevOps experience in lieu of a degree.
  • At least 1 year of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks.
  • Experience with Linux operating systems.
  • Preferred experience with build systems such as Bazel, Buck, or Make.
  • Preferred experience with container and virtualization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, or KVM.
  • Preferred experience with databases and data modeling such as Postgres, MySQL, or ClickHouse.
  • Preferred experience with infrastructure-as-code tools and automation frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
  • Preferred full-stack development experience with Python, JavaScript, and C#, and familiarity with C++ used by end users.
  • Ability to work with mission-critical and sensitive systems, communicate effectively, and work extended hours and weekends as needed.
  • Must satisfy applicable ITAR eligibility or authorization requirements.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and paid parental leave.
  • Various discounts and perks, approximately 3 weeks of paid vacation, and 10 or more paid holidays per year.
  • Paid sick leave pursuant to company policy.
  • Potential eligibility for company stock, stock options, long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Tech Stack

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
SpaceX

About SpaceX

10,000+ employees

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.

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