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SpaceX · 15 hours ago

Site Reliability Engineer, GNC (Falcon)

Hawthorne, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Entry, Mid Level

$140K/yr - $170K/yr

2+ years exp

SpaceX is a company focused on developing technologies for exploring the stars, with the goal of enabling human life on Mars. They are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to operate and scale mission-critical products for Guidance, Navigational, and Control (GNC), involving collaboration with software engineers and maintenance of GNC-focused tools.

Advanced MaterialsAerospaceManufacturingNational SecuritySpace Travel

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Deploy, upgrade, operate/maintain, and scale a suite of mission-critical GNC products and services

Provision and maintain virtual and physical servers

Work with SpaceX HPC team to monitor and maintain a 4000+ thread HPC cluster

Closely collaborate with GNC software engineers to create highly operable and maintainable products

Add monitoring for web apps and respond to outages

Manage the underlying computational infrastructure of GNC in collaboration with IT

Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services: from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement

Make recommendations for future hardware purchases

Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems

Provide end-user support to GNC engineering for products by becoming an expert on analysis applications and support users in troubleshooting and pointing to features

Configure automated deployment pipelines for web apps

Develop or improve GNC web apps and tools for better usability, maintainability, and robustness

Demo and document new software changes such as operating system upgrades, shared filesystem changes, or major tool rollouts

Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques

Qualification

Site Reliability EngineeringPythonLinuxDockerKubernetesConfiguration ManagementNetworking KnowledgeUI/UX DesignHigh-Performance ComputingData Analysis

Required

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems/IT, engineering, math, or scientific discipline and 2+ years of software development experience OR 4+ years of professional experience building software with site reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree

Experience with Linux operating systems

Experience with Python and Python based development frameworks

Preferred

2+ years of systems administration, site reliability engineering, or DevOps experience

2+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks

2+ years of Linux experience

Expertise with Docker, Vagrant, and Kubernetes or similar technologies

Extensive Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Terraform

Experience with build systems (Make, Bazel / Pants / Buck, Gradle) and package management tools (pip, npm)

Strong understanding of virtualization and hypervisor technologies

Understanding of databases and data modeling

Experience with automatically managing dozens or hundreds of servers

Strong networking knowledge of TCP/IP

Experience scaling web applications and optimizing applications for performance

Professional experience with standard front-end technologies like modern HTML, CSS, JavaScript (we use AngularJS, Polymer, Backbone.js, React, and more), REST, JSON

Solid understanding of UI/UX design to provide intuitive applications

Experience with high-performance computing systems or large-scale data analysis systems

Must be comfortable working with mission-critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities