3 days ago
Base Salary
$135k - $195k/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 build operable, scalable, and maintainable products.
- Participate throughout the software development lifecycle, including design, deployment, operation, and iterative refinement.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and apply performance improvement techniques.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline plus 1+ years of professional experience in systems administration, site reliability engineering, or DevOps; alternatively, 3+ years of such professional experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least 1 year of professional experience with Linux operating systems.
- Preferred experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks, Kubernetes, and Istio for on-premise deployment.
- Preferred programming experience in Python, C#, Java, Scala, Go, or similar languages.
- Preferred experience troubleshooting hardware and network-layer issues and managing large server fleets with Terraform or Ansible.
- Knowledge of version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment, monitoring, virtualization, hypervisors, Linux boot and system configuration, and TCP/IP networking.
- Strong communication skills and willingness to work extended hours and weekends when needed.
Benefits
- Base salary range is $135,000.00-$160,000.00 for Level 1 and $155,000.00-$195,000.00 for Level 2.
- Eligible employees may receive company stock or long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and access to an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Benefits include medical, vision, dental, 401(k), disability and life insurance, paid parental leave, discounts, approximately three weeks of paid vacation, paid holidays, and paid sick leave.
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.