Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Starlink, Multi-Region

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Disability & life insurance

Paid parental leave

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer for Starlink in Redmond, WA. You will own the reliability and deployment of distributed services, collaborate across programs, and optimize performance for a global broadband system.

You will work across the full software lifecycle, from design to operation, focusing on scalable, maintainable solutions and rapid iteration in a fast-paced mission-driven environment.

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
• 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

Kubernetes

Istio

Linux

Python

Java

CI/CD

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering/math/science

7+ years experience with software reliability/DevOps in lieu of degree

Tools

Apache Kafka

Spark

HBase

HDFS

Flink

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer for Starlink in Redmond, WA. You will own the reliability and deployment of distributed services, collaborate across programs, and optimize performance for a global broadband system.

You will work across the full software lifecycle, from design to operation, focusing on scalable, maintainable solutions and rapid iteration in a fast-paced mission-driven environment.