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SpaceX · 10 hours ago

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Top Secret Clearance (Application Software, Data)

Hawthorne, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$160K/yr - $220K/yr

5+ years exp

SpaceX is a company focused on developing technologies for space exploration with the goal of enabling human life on Mars. They are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to work on mission-critical applications that support launch vehicle production and flight, as well as systems for the Starlink network. The role involves upgrading distributed systems, managing large compute clusters, and collaborating with engineers across various programs.

Advanced MaterialsAerospaceManufacturingNational SecuritySpace Travel

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

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

Qualification

Site Reliability EngineeringKubernetesData ProcessingLinuxProgramming in PythonDevOpsPerformance ImprovementCollaborationProblem Solving

Required

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline and 5 years of software development experience; OR 7+ years of professional experience building software with site reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree

Experience with Linux operating systems

Active Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance

Willing to work extended hours and weekends when needed