3 days ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$150k - $210k/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 to create operable, scalable, and maintainable products.
- Participate across the software development lifecycle from design and deployment through operation and refinement.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and implement performance improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or engineering plus 1+ year of professional experience in systems administration, site reliability engineering, or DevOps, or 3+ years of such experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least 1 year of professional experience with Linux operating systems.
- Preferred experience includes Python and Python-based development frameworks, Kubernetes, Istio, hardware and network troubleshooting, and programming in Python, C#, Java, Scala, Go, or similar languages.
- Preferred qualifications include version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment, monitoring, virtualization, hypervisors, Linux boot and configuration, Terraform or Ansible, and TCP/IP networking.
- Strong communication skills and willingness to work extended hours and weekends when needed are required.
Benefits
- Base salary is listed at $150,000-$210,000 annually depending on level and qualifications.
- Potential eligibility for company stock or long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Medical, vision, dental, 401(k), disability, life insurance, and paid parental leave benefits are provided.
- Employees may accrue three weeks of paid vacation, 10 or more paid holidays, and paid sick leave.
- Additional discounts and perks are available.
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.