Starlink Site Reliability Engineer - Global Impact Ops

SpaceX; Union Hill-Novelty Hill (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off (about 3 weeks)

Paid holidays 10+

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for Starlink to help optimize the performance and reliability of the world’s largest satellite broadband system. You will own critical infrastructure, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive improvements from design through deployment and operation.

You will work on multi-region deployments, monitoring, and performance tuning, ensuring scalable, highly available services for millions of users worldwide; aerospace background not required,

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+ year of professional experience with Linux operating systems
• Experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
• Experience with Kubernetes and Istio for on-premise deployment
• Strong networking knowledge of TCP/IP
• Excellent communications skills with customers, peers, management, etc.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Python

Kubernetes

Istio

TCP/IP

CI/CD

Virtualization

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for Starlink to help optimize the performance and reliability of the world’s largest satellite broadband system. You will own critical infrastructure, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive improvements from design through deployment and operation.

You will work on multi-region deployments, monitoring, and performance tuning, ensuring scalable, highly available services for millions of users worldwide; aerospace background not required,