Starlink Site Reliability Engineer: Global, Multi-Region

SpaceX; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for the Starlink program in Redmond, WA. You will own and improve distributed systems, deployment, monitoring, and multi-region operations to deliver reliable satellite internet services worldwide.

As a member of a collaborative team, you will tackle architecture upgrades, optimize performance, and drive the full software lifecycle from design through operation, ensuring scalable and maintainable services for a rapidly evolving space-based broadband

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

Python

Linux

DevOps

CI/CD

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for the Starlink program in Redmond, WA. You will own and improve distributed systems, deployment, monitoring, and multi-region operations to deliver reliable satellite internet services worldwide.

As a member of a collaborative team, you will tackle architecture upgrades, optimize performance, and drive the full software lifecycle from design through operation, ensuring scalable and maintainable services for a rapidly evolving space-based broadband