Senior Site Reliability Engineer — Multi-Region Impact

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Redmond, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company stock

Long-term cash awards

Discretionary bonuses

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Medical coverage

Vision coverage

Dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Paid parental leave

Paid vacation

Job summary

SpaceX in Redmond, WA seeks a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer for the Starlink program. You will own reliability across services, improve multi-region deployments, and work with a team to optimize performance and scalability. Candidates must show strong software and systems troubleshooting skills.

The role emphasizes end-to-end lifecycle involvement from design to operation, with preference for cloud/on-prem collaboration and full ownership of critical reliability improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 5 years of software development or 7+ years in lieu of degree.
• Experience with Linux operating systems and modern devops practices.
• Active Top-Secret or TS/SCI clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Upgrade distributed systems to be sharded and geo-redundant across multiple data centers.
• Advance deployment, monitoring, and alerting for multi-region environments.
• Collaborate with engineers to create scalable, maintainable products.

Skills

Site reliability

Kubernetes

Istio

Data processing

Apache Kafka

Spark

HBase

HDFS

Flink

Python

C#

Java

Scala

Version control

Education

Bachelor's degree + 5 years experience

7+ years professional experience in site reliability/DevOps

Tools

Linux operating systems

Job description

SpaceX in Redmond, WA seeks a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer for the Starlink program. You will own reliability across services, improve multi-region deployments, and work with a team to optimize performance and scalability. Candidates must show strong software and systems troubleshooting skills.

The role emphasizes end-to-end lifecycle involvement from design to operation, with preference for cloud/on-prem collaboration and full ownership of critical reliability improvements.