Site Reliability Engineer — Global, Multi-Region Infra

SpaceX; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) plan

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

Paid parental leave

Vacation and holidays

Job summary

SpaceX seeks a Site Reliability Engineer for the Starlink program to scale and secure our global satellite internet service. You will own deployment, monitoring, and incident response for a multi-region, petabyte-scale environment.

Candidates with Linux, Python, Kubernetes, Istio, Terraform/Ansible experience thrive here; aerospace background is not required. On-site role in El Segundo, CA with competitive pay and strong benefits.

Qualifications

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

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

Python

Kubernetes

Istio

Networking

Linux

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

SpaceX seeks a Site Reliability Engineer for the Starlink program to scale and secure our global satellite internet service. You will own deployment, monitoring, and incident response for a multi-region, petabyte-scale environment.

Candidates with Linux, Python, Kubernetes, Istio, Terraform/Ansible experience thrive here; aerospace background is not required. On-site role in El Segundo, CA with competitive pay and strong benefits.