5 months ago
Hawthorne, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$125k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Deploy, upgrade, operate, and scale mission-critical GNC products and services.
- Provision and maintain virtual and physical servers and manage GNC computational infrastructure with IT stakeholders.
- Monitor and maintain an HPC cluster consisting of tens of thousands of CPUs.
- Monitor web applications and services, perform incident response, and conduct sustainable postmortems.
- Collaborate with GNC software engineers to create operable and maintainable products.
- Configure automated deployment pipelines and develop or improve GNC web applications and tools.
- Provide end-user support, troubleshoot analysis applications, and document or demonstrate major software and infrastructure changes.
- Analyze performance bottlenecks and recommend performance improvements and future hardware purchases.
- Manage the service lifecycle from design through operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, engineering, mathematics, or a scientific discipline plus 2+ years of software development experience, or 4+ years of professional software-building experience with site reliability or DevOps work in lieu of a degree.
- Experience with Linux operating systems, Python, and Python-based development frameworks.
- Preferred: 2+ years of systems administration, site reliability engineering, or DevOps experience.
- Preferred: expertise with Docker, Vagrant, Kubernetes or similar technologies, and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Terraform.
- Preferred: experience with build systems, package management, virtualization, databases, networking, automated server management, web application scaling, performance optimization, on-premises infrastructure, GPU fleets, HPC, or large-scale data analysis systems.
- Ability and willingness to obtain a Top Secret clearance; applicants must satisfy applicable ITAR authorization requirements.
- Willingness to work extended hours and weekends when needed for critical deadlines.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid parental leave.
- Company stock, stock options, long-term cash awards, potential discretionary bonuses, and an employee stock purchase plan may be available.
- Approximately three weeks of paid vacation, 10 or more paid holidays per year, paid sick leave, and other discounts and perks.
- May require extended hours and weekends when needed for critical deadlines.
- Applicants may need to obtain a Top Secret clearance and may be subject to pre-employment and random drug and alcohol testing.
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.