Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Top Secret Clearance

SpaceX; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 230,000; Full time

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