Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Starlink Global Infra

SpaceX; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k)

Medical, vision, dental

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer for the Starlink program. You will own challenging problems, upgrade distributed systems, and enhance multi-region deployment, monitoring, and operations to deliver reliable satellite internet services globally.

We value strong software engineering, Linux expertise, and hands-on experience with on‑premise deployments, data processing stacks, and scalable systems across multi‑region data centers.

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.
• 5+ years of rigorous experience with site reliability or DevOps.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Istio for on-premise deployment.
• Experience within-stream, data processing and analytics using open source platforms such as Apache Kafka, Spark, HBase, HDFS, Flink.
• Experience troubleshooting hardware and network-layer issues.
• Programming experience in Python, C#, Java, Scala, or similar languages.
• Good understanding of version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment and monitoring.

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.

Skills

Linux OS

Software development

Cloud/DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Apache Kafka

Spark

HBase

HDFS

Flink

Python

C#

Java

Scala

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer for the Starlink program. You will own challenging problems, upgrade distributed systems, and enhance multi-region deployment, monitoring, and operations to deliver reliable satellite internet services globally.

We value strong software engineering, Linux expertise, and hands-on experience with on‑premise deployments, data processing stacks, and scalable systems across multi‑region data centers.