Base Salary
$165k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Upgrade distributed systems for 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, math, 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.
- Experience with Linux operating systems.
- Active Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance.
- 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.
- Programming experience in Python, C#, Java, Scala, Go, or similar languages.
- Understanding of version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment, and monitoring.
- Willingness to work extended hours and weekends when needed.
- Applicants must meet applicable ITAR citizenship, residency, refugee, asylee, or authorization requirements.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $165,000-$230,000 per year, excluding additional incentives and bonuses.
- Company stock or long-term cash awards, potential discretionary bonuses, and employee stock purchase plan.
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, plus a 401(k) retirement plan.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, discounts, and other perks.
- Approximately three weeks of paid vacation, 10 or more paid holidays, and paid sick leave.
- May require extended hours and weekends when needed.
- Active Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance is required, and applicable roles may involve pre-employment and random drug and alcohol testing.
Tech Stack
About SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA. For more information, visit www.spacex.com.