Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink)

SpaceX • Redmond, WA

13h • $140,000 - $200,000

About The Position

As a Site Reliability Engineer on SpaceX’s Starlink program, you will solve challenges that improve the use of deployed hardware and help provide customers with the best possible satellite internet experience. You will take ownership of challenging problems and work with a collaborative team to design and produce solutions that support SpaceX’s mission. The role contributes to the software that enables Starlink’s satellite constellation, consumer receivers, and internet service.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline and at least 1 year of professional experience in systems administration, site reliability engineering, or DevOps; alternatively, at least 3 years of professional experience in one of those areas in lieu of a degree.
• At least 1 year of professional experience with Linux operating systems.
• Willingness to work extended hours and weekends when needed.

Nice To Haves

• At least 1 year of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Istio for on-premise deployment.
• Experience troubleshooting hardware and network-layer issues.
• Programming experience in Python, C#, Java, Scala, Go, or similar languages.
• Good understanding of version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment, and monitoring.
• Strong understanding of virtualization and hypervisor technologies.
• Knowledge of the Linux boot process and systems configuration.
• Deep understanding of testing, continuous integration, build, deployment, and continuous monitoring.
• Experience automatically managing dozens, hundreds, or thousands of servers, such as with Terraform or Ansible.
• Strong TCP/IP networking knowledge.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate with customers, peers, and management in formal and informal situations.

Responsibilities

• Upgrade existing distributed systems to become sharded and geo-redundant across 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, and maintainable products.
• Participate throughout the software development lifecycle, from service inception and design through deployment, operation, and iterative refinement.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and apply performance improvement techniques.

Benefits

• Potential eligibility for long-term incentives in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards.
• Potential discretionary bonuses.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount.
• Comprehensive medical coverage.
• Vision coverage.
• Dental coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Various other discounts and perks.
• Accrual of 3 weeks of paid vacation.
• 10 or more paid holidays per year.
• Paid sick leave pursuant to company policy.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level