Site Reliability Engineer for Global Starlink Network

Spacex; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Employee stock purchase plan

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

SpaceX Starlink seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen the reliability of our satellite internet network. You will own and optimize distributed systems, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and cross-team collaboration to deliver robust services across regions.

The role emphasizes solving complex reliability challenges, improving performance, and supporting a mission to provide global broadband access through Starlink.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline plus 1+ years in systems administration, site reliability, or DevOps; or 3+ years in lieu of a degree.
• 1+ years of professional experience with Linux operating systems.

Responsibilities

• Upgrade existing distributed systems to be sharded and geo-redundant in multiple data centers.
• Advance deployment, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure for a multi-region environment.
• Manage petabyte-scale bare metal compute clusters.
• Collaborate across programs to create highly operable, scalable products.
• Engage in the full software development lifecycle from inception to operation.
• Focus on performance bottlenecks and improvement techniques.

Skills

Python

Linux

Kubernetes

Istio

TCP/IP

Communication

Education

BS in CS/Eng/IT

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Job description

SpaceX Starlink seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen the reliability of our satellite internet network. You will own and optimize distributed systems, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and cross-team collaboration to deliver robust services across regions.

The role emphasizes solving complex reliability challenges, improving performance, and supporting a mission to provide global broadband access through Starlink.