2 months ago
Base Salary
$165k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Upgrade distributed systems to support sharding and geo-redundancy across multiple data centers.
- Advance deployment, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure for multi-region operations.
- Manage petabyte-scale bare-metal compute clusters.
- Collaborate with engineers across programs to create operable, scalable, and maintainable products.
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and implement performance improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a scientific discipline plus five years of software development experience, or seven-plus years of professional software-building experience in site reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree.
- Experience with Linux operating systems.
- Active Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance.
- Five-plus 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.
- Willingness to work extended hours and weekends when needed.
- Must satisfy applicable ITAR authorization requirements.
Benefits
- Company stock or long-term cash awards may be available.
- Potential discretionary bonuses and Employee Stock Purchase Plan access.
- Medical, vision, dental, 401(k), disability, and life insurance coverage.
- Paid parental leave, discounts, and other perks.
- Approximately three weeks of paid vacation and 10 or more paid holidays annually.
- Paid sick leave under company policy.
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.