Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Starlink Program (TS/SCI)

InvestedintheMission; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, vision, dental

401(k)

Paid parental leave

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer for the Starlink program in Hawthorne. You will own and optimize distributed systems, ensure secure access, and drive deployment, monitoring, and performance improvements across multi-region infrastructure.

Active TS/SCI clearance is required; space and network hardware challenges, on-call duties, and collaboration with cross‑functional teams are key parts of the role. Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in CS/engineering/math/science.
• Experience building software with site reliability or DevOps.
• Active Top-Secret or TS/SCI clearance.

Responsibilities

• Upgrade distributed systems to be sharded and geo-redundant across data centers.
• Advance deployment, monitoring, and alerting for multi-region setups.
• Manage petabyte-scale bare metal clusters.
• Collaborate with engineers to deliver scalable, operable products.
• Engage from inception to deployment and refinement of services.
• Address performance bottlenecks and optimization strategies.

Skills

DevOps / Site Reliability

Linux experience

Clearance TS/SCI

Performance optimization

Collaboration across teams

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Apache Kafka

Spark

HBase

HDFS

Flink

Python

Java

Go

Git / CI tooling

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer for the Starlink program in Hawthorne. You will own and optimize distributed systems, ensure secure access, and drive deployment, monitoring, and performance improvements across multi-region infrastructure.

Active TS/SCI clearance is required; space and network hardware challenges, on-call duties, and collaboration with cross‑functional teams are key parts of the role. Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits are offered.