Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Top Secret Clearance

Future Ventures

Redmond (WA)

On-site

USD 165,000 - 230,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Stock options
Long-term incentives
Bonuses
Medical, vision, dental coverage
401(k) retirement plan
Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is hiring a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer for the Starlink program in Redmond. You will own and improve distributed systems, deployment, monitoring, and scaling across data centers, collaborating with engineers to deliver reliable services.

A TS/SCI clearance is required by policy, with opportunities for long-term incentives and comprehensive benefits. You will work on performance optimization, handle petabyte-scale clusters, and drive end-to-end lifecycle improvements from design to

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in CS, 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
  • Active Top-Secret or Top-Secret SCI

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

Kubernetes
Istio
Apache Kafka
Spark
HBase
HDFS
Flink
Python
C#
Java
Scala
Go
Software development

Education

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

Tools

Kubernetes
Istio

Job description

SpaceX is hiring a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer for the Starlink program in Redmond. You will own and improve distributed systems, deployment, monitoring, and scaling across data centers, collaborating with engineers to deliver reliable services.

A TS/SCI clearance is required by policy, with opportunities for long-term incentives and comprehensive benefits. You will work on performance optimization, handle petabyte-scale clusters, and drive end-to-end lifecycle improvements from design to

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