Base Salary
$125k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop automation to deploy and manage on-premise compute resources.
- Deploy and manage databases, monitoring systems, distributed storage, software libraries, and other core infrastructure.
- Collaborate with software engineers to create scalable, operable, and maintainable products.
- Own service lifecycles from design and deployment through operation and refinement.
- Create tools and processes that improve development and deployment speed, accuracy, and usability.
- Provide software validation across virtualized, hardware-in-the-loop, and on-orbit test platforms.
- Support monitoring, data analysis, continuous integration, and release systems.
- Perform hands-on integration and troubleshooting across the Starlink technology stack.
- Identify infrastructure and developer-velocity improvements and implement innovative solutions.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or engineering plus at least one year of professional experience in systems administration, site reliability engineering, or DevOps, or at least three years of such experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least one year of professional experience with Linux operating systems.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or comparable infrastructure tools.
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
- Experience with Bash, Python, or other scripting languages, plus development experience in Python, C++, or C.
- Preferred experience includes Python-based development frameworks, virtualization and hypervisors, Linux boot and systems configuration, testing, continuous integration, build and deployment systems, continuous monitoring, Bazel or other build systems, performance optimization, databases and data modeling, large-scale server management, and TCP/IP networking.
- Strong communication skills and willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
- Applicants must satisfy applicable U.S. export-control authorization requirements under ITAR.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan, disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, discounts, and other perks.
- Approximately three weeks of paid vacation and 10 or more paid holidays annually.
- Washington State employees accrue paid sick time in compliance with applicable law.
- Company shuttles are available Monday through Friday from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office.
- The role may include long-term incentives, discretionary bonuses, and an employee stock purchase plan.
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.