2 months ago
Base Salary
$165k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Upgrade distributed systems for sharding and geographic 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 across the software development lifecycle from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement
- Identify performance bottlenecks and apply performance improvement techniques
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-building experience in lieu of a degree
- Experience with Linux operating systems
- 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 preferred
- Must meet applicable ITAR 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
- Company stock or long-term cash awards may be available
- Discretionary bonuses and Employee Stock Purchase Plan access may be available
- Three weeks of paid vacation and 10 or more paid holidays per year
- Paid sick leave
- Extended hours and weekend work may be required when needed
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.