Senior SRE: AI-GPU Infra & On-Prem Kubernetes

SpaceX

Union Hill-Novelty Hill (WA)

On-site

USD 165,000 - 270,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Company stock

Long-term incentives

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Medical, vision, dental

401(k) plan

Paid parental leave

Paid vacation

10+ holidays per year

Shuttle service

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Starshield) to design, operate and scale GPU/CPU infrastructure for the Starshield constellation.

You will automate on-prem resources, deploy Kubernetes/AI clusters, and collaborate with AI engineers to deliver scalable, reliable systems. Requirements include 5+ years in Linux environments and Kubernetes, Terraform/Ansible tools, and programming in Python/Go/C++.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline and 5+ years of professional experience with Linux operating systems; OR 7+ years of professional experience in software, DevOps, or site reliability engineering in lieu of a degree
5+ year of experience with Kubernetes
5+ year of experience managing Linux operating systems
Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other infrastructure tools
Experience with containerization technologies (i.e. OCI containers, Kubernetes)
Experience scripting in Bash, Python, or other similar languages
Development experience in Python, C++, or Go

Responsibilities

Manage GPU/CPU infrastructure deployments to Top Secret data centers
Manage and provide support for GPU as a service for external customers on bare metal hardware and virtualized platforms
Design, validate, and productize solutions for AI clusters (100k+ GPU scale)
Develop automation to deploy and manage on-premise Kubernetes/AI clusters, and operating systems
Deploy and manage core infrastructure such as databases, monitoring and distributed storage
Closely collaborate with AI engineers to create highly scalable, operable, and maintainable products
Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services -- from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement
Monitoring and alerting supporting systems to have high availability
Identify areas for improvement and create innovative solutions that enable high system availability
Mentor and train junior engineers
As a senior engineer you must lead the team to technical excellence - your decisions guide the team