Starlink SRE - Global Multi-Region Reliability

Starlink; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, Vision & Dental

401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

SpaceX, the developer of Starlink, seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to own and improve the reliability of Starlink's global infrastructure. You will solve complex problems across distributed systems, optimize deployments, monitoring, and operations while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, maintainable services.

The role emphasizes performance tuning, Linux expertise, and automation using IaC tools.

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

Education

B.S. in CS/IT/Engineering

1+ year Linux experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

SpaceX, the developer of Starlink, seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to own and improve the reliability of Starlink's global infrastructure. You will solve complex problems across distributed systems, optimize deployments, monitoring, and operations while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, maintainable services.

The role emphasizes performance tuning, Linux expertise, and automation using IaC tools.