Site Reliability Engineer — Mission-Critical Systems

Iac/interactivecorp; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

Paid vacation

Job summary

SpaceX is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to operate and scale mission-critical software products used in launch, test, and Starlink operations. You’ll own the software delivery pace and work with a team of engineers to keep systems reliable.

You will join a collaborative culture with on-call rotations, strong emphasis on automation, observability, and performance tuning in a fast-paced aerospace environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or engineering; OR 2+ years of professional experience with site reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree.
• Experience with Linux operating systems.
• 5+ years of DevOps, site reliability engineering, or system administration experience.
• 3+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks.
• Experience with source code and version control tools such as Git or Subversion.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) products for automatically managing fleets of servers.
• Experience with build systems (Make, Bazel/Pants/Buck, Gradle, etc.) and package management tools (pip, npm, etc.).
• Experience with container and virtualization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or other automation frameworks.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP networking.
• Experience with databases and data modeling.
• Experience with JIRA and workflow/issue management.
• Ability to work on mission-critical and sensitive systems with urgency.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, upgrade, operate/maintain, and scale our suite of mission-critical products and services.
• Manage our infrastructure as code and use observability tools to monitor application health.
• Collaborate with software engineers to create highly operable and maintainable products.
• Engage in and improve the full software development lifecycle from design to deployment.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless post-mortems.
• Provide end-user support to vehicle software engineers for products.
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation periodically.
• Focus on performance bottlenecks and improvement techniques.

Skills

DevOps

Site Reliability

Python

Git

IaC

Build Systems

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Networking

Databases

JIRA

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Git

Subversion

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Bazel/Pants/Buck

Gradle

Pip

NPM

Job description

SpaceX is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to operate and scale mission-critical software products used in launch, test, and Starlink operations. You’ll own the software delivery pace and work with a team of engineers to keep systems reliable.

You will join a collaborative culture with on-call rotations, strong emphasis on automation, observability, and performance tuning in a fast-paced aerospace environment.