Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Starlink (Top Secret)

InvestedintheMission; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer to support the Starlink program. This role focuses on upgrading distributed systems, deploying multi-region infrastructure, and ensuring high availability of satellite broadband services.

Candidates should have 5+ years of SRE/DevOps experience, Linux expertise, and active TS clearance. The team collaborates across programs to deliver scalable, operable solutions that move Starlink toward its mission.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline with 5 years SRE/DevOps experience
• 7+ years of professional software development with site reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree

Responsibilities

• Upgrade distributed systems to be shard and geo-redundant across data centers
• Advance deployment, monitoring, and alerting for multi-region environments
• Manage petabyte-scale bare metal compute clusters
• Collaborate with engineers to build highly operable, scalable products
• Engage in the full software lifecycle from design to operation and refinement
• Focus on performance bottlenecks and optimization

Skills

Site Reliability

DevOps

Education

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

Tools

Linux

Kubernetes

Istio

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer to support the Starlink program. This role focuses on upgrading distributed systems, deploying multi-region infrastructure, and ensuring high availability of satellite broadband services.

Candidates should have 5+ years of SRE/DevOps experience, Linux expertise, and active TS clearance. The team collaborates across programs to deliver scalable, operable solutions that move Starlink toward its mission.