Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Top Secret Clearance (Starlink)

InvestedintheMission; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer to support the Starlink program. This role focuses on upgrading distributed systems, deploying multi-region infrastructure, and ensuring high availability of satellite broadband services.

Candidates should have 5+ years of SRE/DevOps experience, Linux expertise, and active TS clearance. The team collaborates across programs to deliver scalable, operable solutions that move Starlink toward its mission.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline with 5 years SRE/DevOps experience
• 7+ years of professional software development with site reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree

Responsibilities

• Upgrade distributed systems to be shard and geo-redundant across data centers
• Advance deployment, monitoring, and alerting for multi-region environments
• Manage petabyte-scale bare metal compute clusters
• Collaborate with engineers to build highly operable, scalable products
• Engage in the full software lifecycle from design to operation and refinement
• Focus on performance bottlenecks and optimization

Skills

Site Reliability

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline

Tools

Linux

Kubernetes

Istio

Job description

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

SR. SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER - TOP SECRET CLEARANCE (STARLINK)

At SpaceX we’re leveraging our experience in building rockets and spacecraft to deploy Starlink, the world’s most advanced broadband internet system. Starlink is the world’s largest satellite constellation and is providing fast, reliable internet to 9M+ users worldwide. We design, build, test, and operate all parts of the system – thousands of satellites, consumer receivers that allow users to connect within minutes of unboxing, and the software that brings it all together. We’ve only begun to scratch the surface of Starlink’s potential global impact and are looking for the world’s best engineers to help maximize Starlink’s utility for communities and businesses around the globe.

As a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer on the Starlink program, you will be solving challenges that improve our ability to fully utilize the hardware we have deployed. Our goal is to provide customers with the best possible satellite internet experience, often providing under‑served communities with affordable, life‑changing broadband internet access.

Aerospace experience is not required for success here - rather, we look for smart, motivated, and collaborative site reliability engineers who love solving problems and want to make an impact on a truly inspiring mission. You will have full ownership of challenging problems, working with a team of enthusiastic engineers to design and produce solutions that enable SpaceX to move towards our goals at a rapid pace. The success of the missions at SpaceX depends on the software that you and your team produce.

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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline and 5 years of software development experience; OR 7+ years of professional experience building software with site reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree
• Experience with Linux operating systems
• Active Top-Secret or Top-Secret SCI

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years of rigorous experience with site reliability or DevOps
• Experience with Kubernetes and Istio