Starlink Kubernetes Platform Engineer

SpaceX; Union Hill-Novelty Hill (WA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company stock

Long-term incentives

Discretionary bonuses

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Medical, vision, dental

401(k) retirement plan

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Paid parental leave

Paid vacation (3 weeks)

10+ paid holidays

Shuttle service (Seattle/Redmond)

Job summary

SpaceX's Starlink division seeks a Kubernetes Platform Infrastructure Engineer to design, operate, and scale the infrastructure powering the world's largest satellite internet system. You will build automation to deploy on-premise Kubernetes clusters, deploy core infrastructure, and collaborate with software engineering to create scalable, maintainable products.

Responsibilities span lifecycle management, monitoring, troubleshooting, and driving high availability across the Starlink stack, with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline and 1+ years of professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps; OR 3+ years of professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps in lieu of a degree
• 1+ years of professional experience with Linux operating systems
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other infrastructure tools
• Experience with containerization technologies (i.e. OCI containers, Kubernetes)
• Experience scripting in Bash, Python, or other similar languages
• Development experience in Python, C++, or Go

Responsibilities

• Develop automation to deploy and manage on-premise Kubernetes clusters
• Deploy and manage core infrastructure such as databases, monitoring and distributed storage
• Closely collaborate with software engineers to create highly scalable, operable, and maintainable products
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services -- from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement
• Monitoring and alerting supporting systems to have high availability
• Hands-on integration and troubleshooting across the entire Starlink stack
• Identify areas for improvement and create innovative solutions that enable high system availability

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Linux

Python

C++

Go

Networking

DevOps

SRE

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

OCI containers

Kubernetes

Job description

SpaceX's Starlink division seeks a Kubernetes Platform Infrastructure Engineer to design, operate, and scale the infrastructure powering the world's largest satellite internet system. You will build automation to deploy on-premise Kubernetes clusters, deploy core infrastructure, and collaborate with software engineering to create scalable, maintainable products.

Responsibilities span lifecycle management, monitoring, troubleshooting, and driving high availability across the Starlink stack, with