5 months ago
Base Salary
$165k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop automation to deploy and manage on-premise Kubernetes clusters
- Deploy and manage core infrastructure including databases, monitoring, and distributed storage
- Collaborate with software engineers to create scalable, operable, and maintainable products
- Improve the full service lifecycle from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement
- Monitor and alert supporting systems to maintain high availability
- Perform hands-on integration and troubleshooting across the Starlink stack
- Identify improvement areas and create solutions that enable high system availability
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline and 5+ years of professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps, or 7+ years of such experience in lieu of a degree
- At least 2 years of professional experience with Linux operating systems
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or comparable infrastructure tools
- Experience with containerization technologies such as OCI containers and Kubernetes
- Scripting experience in Bash, Python, or similar languages
- Development experience in Python, C++, or Go
- At least 1 year of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks is preferred
- Experience managing Kubernetes clusters is preferred
- Knowledge of the Linux boot process and systems configuration is preferred
- Understanding of testing, continuous integration, build, deployment, and continuous monitoring is preferred
- Understanding of build technologies such as Bazel and Makefiles is preferred
- Experience with performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques is preferred
- Understanding of distributed databases and data modeling is preferred
- Experience automatically managing dozens, hundreds, or thousands of servers is preferred
- Strong TCP/IP networking knowledge is preferred
- Excellent communication skills are preferred
- Must meet applicable ITAR authorization requirements
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Three weeks of paid vacation
- 10 or more paid holidays per year
- Paid sick time in Washington State in compliance with applicable law
- Employee discounts and other perks
- Company shuttles from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office Monday through Friday
- May require extended hours and weekends as needed
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.