27 days ago
Base Salary
$165k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Upgrade distributed systems to support sharding and geo-redundancy across multiple data centers.
- Advance 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 throughout the software development lifecycle, from service inception and design through deployment, operation, and iterative refinement.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and implement performance improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a scientific discipline plus five years of software development experience, or seven or more years of professional software experience in site reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree.
- Active Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance is required.
- Experience with Linux operating systems.
- Preferred: five or more years of rigorous site reliability or DevOps experience.
- Preferred: experience with Kubernetes and Istio for on-premise deployment.
- Preferred: experience with in-stream data processing and analytics using Apache Kafka, Spark, HBase, HDFS, or Flink.
- Preferred: experience troubleshooting hardware and network-layer issues.
- Preferred: programming experience in Python, C#, Java, Scala, Go, or similar languages.
- Preferred: understanding of version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment, and monitoring.
- Applicants must satisfy applicable ITAR eligibility or authorization requirements.
- Willingness to work extended hours and weekends when needed.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, and life insurance.
- Paid parental leave, employee discounts, approximately three weeks of paid vacation, and 10 or more paid holidays per year.
- Paid sick leave under company policy.
- Eligible employees may receive stock or long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and access to an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- The role may require extended hours and weekend work when needed; active Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance is required, with pre-employment and random drug and alcohol testing for certain sensitive missions.
Tech Stack
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.