Space Exploration Technologies-posted 6 months ago
$120,000 - $160,000/Yr
Full-time • Mid Level
Hawthorne, CA
5,001-10,000 employees
Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

SpaceX is looking for an experienced engineer with deep knowledge and broad experience across Linux-based technologies. This employee will be a member of the Information Technology Linux Infrastructure team. The ideal candidate will be flexible and flourish in a fast paced and challenging environment. He or she should be a self-starter, self-motivator and possess ingenuity to excel at this position.

  • Work closely with other SpaceX engineers to gather requirements, research, evaluate, design, plan, deploy, and support Linux-based/open source software platforms and related technologies in a world-class environment that meets the needs of the demanding SpaceX engineering teams.
  • Build highly-resilient, high-performance, scalable, and flexible systems.
  • Exercise a high degree of responsibility for the processes, systems, and tools you create and manage; all supporting the goal of making humanity an interplanetary species.
  • Make recommendations, justify, and implement improvements using an accepted change control methodology.
  • Work within a diverse group to design and deliver creative solutions and resolve problems in a timely and proactive manner by interacting with internal business units.
  • Define, document and follow standards and best practices for systems design, testing, and implementation.
  • Drive scripting and automation to develop solutions to common problems.
  • Participate in on-call rotation to support critical systems round-the-clock.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, physics, or information systems, and 3+ years of systems engineering experience; OR 5+ years of systems engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
  • Experience with Linux servers in physical and virtualized environments.
  • Experience with Linux shell (bash scripting, output parsing, etc.).
  • Experience with Python or other scripting and automation languages.
  • Expertise in creating repeatable, reliable, scalable systems architectures, with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and statistics/metrics collection.
  • Expert working knowledge (including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot) Linux-based and open-source systems and technologies such as Apache, BIND, HAProxy, NGINX, sendmail/postfix, iptables, etc.
  • Experience with ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) or other centralized logging solutions.
  • Expertise in source code and version control tools such as Git and Subversion.
  • Experience with configuration management (Puppet or Ansible), provisioning, infrastructure as code, and other DevOps concepts and tools (Vagrant, Docker, Kubernetes, etc).
  • Understanding of developing web and C/C++ applications and build processes.
  • Networking experience in IPv4, switching, routing, firewalls and HA architecture.
  • Comfortable working with mission critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities.
  • Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate with internal/external customers, vendors, management etc. in both formal and informal situations.
  • Pay Range: $120,000.00 - $160,000.00/per year
  • Long-term incentives, in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards.
  • Potential discretionary bonuses.
  • Ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Short and long-term disability insurance.
  • Life insurance.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Accrual of 3 weeks of paid vacation.
  • Eligibility for 10 or more paid holidays per year.
  • 5 days of sick leave per year for exempt employees.
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