Site Reliability Engineer – Starlink Global Network

Starlink; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical coverage

401(k) plan

Paid parental leave

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Paid sick leave

Job summary

SpaceX's Starlink program is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to uplift distributed systems, deploy multi-region infrastructure, and ensure scalable, highly available satellite internet services. You will own challenges from inception to deployment, collaborating across programs and focusing on performance improvements.

Experience with Linux, Python, Kubernetes, and automation is valued, with SpaceX offering competitive compensation and stock options.

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

Linux

Python

Kubernetes

Networking TCP/IP

CI/CD

Version control

Communication skills

Terraform/Ansible

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Job description

SpaceX's Starlink program is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to uplift distributed systems, deploy multi-region infrastructure, and ensure scalable, highly available satellite internet services. You will own challenges from inception to deployment, collaborating across programs and focusing on performance improvements.

Experience with Linux, Python, Kubernetes, and automation is valued, with SpaceX offering competitive compensation and stock options.