Member of Technical Staff, Platform Engineer (Government)

SpaceX•Washington, DC

3h•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Member of Technical Staff, Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for building tooling and collaborating with cleared engineers at classified sites to execute it. The effectiveness of these engineers in environments where direct assistance is not possible will depend on the quality of your deterministic, complete, well-tested, and foolproof tooling.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, computer engineering, physics, data science, or engineering discipline.
1+ years of experience in Go Lang.
2+ years of experience working with Kubernetes or similar tooling for automating, developing and scaling containerized applications.

Nice To Haves

Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance.
Experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or equivalent).
Familiarity with container image management.
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Pulumi or Terraform) and understanding of state management tradeoffs.
Understanding of Linux systems.
Experience building air-gapped or disconnected deployment tooling where all dependencies must be pre-staged.
Familiarity with GPU infrastructure, including NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, NCCL, InfiniBand/RoCE networking.
Experience with PXE boot, cloud-init, squashfs, or other bare metal provisioning technologies.
Own the bare metal provisioning pipeline.

Responsibilities

Design and build the deployment generator.
Create and maintain platform documentation.
Build the bundle pipeline.
Implement profile-driven rendering for public cloud, enterprise on-prem, and classified air-gap targets based on profile selection.
Build and maintain the cross-profile CI matrix.
Build the testing and validation framework.
Integrate with the existing Supercompute team's operators, Helm charts, and CRDs by consuming their work as inputs to the generator without modifying production infrastructure.
Own the monitoring stack migration.

Benefits

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.
Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
Short and long-term disability insurance.
Life insurance.
Paid parental leave.
Various other discounts and perks.
3 weeks of paid vacation.
10 or more paid holidays per year.
Paid sick leave pursuant to Company policy.