Senior Site Reliability Engineer — Global, Multi-Region

SpaceX

El Segundo (CA)

On-site

USD 165,000 - 265,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Long-term incentives

Stock plan

Health, vision and dental

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

SpaceX’s Starlink program seeks a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer to own and optimize highly available, scalable services across multi-region data centers. You will lead deployment, monitoring, and performance improvements for a rapidly expanding satellite internet platform.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Linux experience, and hands-on Kubernetes/Istio know-how. You will collaborate across programs to ensure reliable service delivery and hardware-software integration.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline and 5 years of software development experience; OR 7+ years of professional experience building software with site reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree.
Experience with Linux operating systems.

Responsibilities

Upgrade existing distributed systems to become sharded and geo-redundant in multiple data centers.
Advance existing deployment, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure to support a multi-region environment.
Manage petabyte scale bare metal compute clusters.
Closely collaborate with engineers across all programs to create highly operable, scalable, and maintainable products.
Engage throughout the whole software development lifecycle of services -- from inception to design, deployment, operation, and iterative refinement.
Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques.