3 days ago
Base Salary
$140k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Upgrade distributed systems to support sharding and geo-redundancy across multiple data centers.
- Improve deployment, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure for multi-region environments.
- Manage petabyte-scale bare-metal compute clusters.
- Collaborate with engineers across programs to create operable, scalable, and maintainable products.
- Participate across the software lifecycle from service inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and implement performance improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or engineering plus 1+ years of professional experience in systems administration, site reliability engineering, or DevOps; alternatively, 3+ years of such professional experience may substitute for the degree.
- At least 1 year of professional experience with Linux operating systems.
- Preferred experience includes Python and Python-based development frameworks, Kubernetes, Istio, hardware and network troubleshooting, and programming in Python, C#, Java, Scala, Go, or similar languages.
- Preferred qualifications include version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment, monitoring, virtualization, hypervisors, Linux boot and systems configuration, Terraform or Ansible, and TCP/IP networking.
- Strong communication skills and willingness to work extended hours and weekends when needed are required.
Benefits
- Base salary ranges from $140,000 to $200,000 depending on level and qualifications, excluding other rewards.
- 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, approximately three weeks of paid vacation, and 10 or more paid holidays are provided.
- The role is subject to U.S. ITAR employment eligibility requirements, including U.S. citizenship or nationality, lawful permanent residence, refugee or asylee status, or eligibility to obtain required authorizations.
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.