Site Reliability Engineer - Starlink: Scale Global Networks

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Performance bonuses

Medical, Vision & Dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for the Starlink program to improve reliability and performance of our satellite internet platform. You will own challenging problems, working with a team to design scalable solutions for a global customer base.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, multi-region operations, and automation. SpaceX offers a competitive salary, stock options, and comprehensive benefits in a fast-moving aerospace environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 1+ year of relevant experience in systems administration, SRE, or DevOps
• 1+ years of professional experience with Linux operating systems
• Experience with modern DevOps tooling and automation

Responsibilities

• Upgrade existing distributed systems to be sharded and geo-redundant across data centers
• Advance deployment, monitoring, and alerting to support a multi-region environment
• Manage petabyte-scale bare metal compute clusters
• Collaborate with engineers to build highly operable, scalable products
• Engage across the software development lifecycle from inception to deployment
• Focus on performance bottlenecks and improvement techniques

Skills

Python

Linux

Networking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Terraform

Ansible

Git

CI/CD

Virtualization

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for the Starlink program to improve reliability and performance of our satellite internet platform. You will own challenging problems, working with a team to design scalable solutions for a global customer base.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, multi-region operations, and automation. SpaceX offers a competitive salary, stock options, and comprehensive benefits in a fast-moving aerospace environment.