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SpaceX · 2 weeks ago

Linux Site Reliability Engineer

Hawthorne, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$140K/yr - $170K/yr

3+ years exp

SpaceX is actively developing technologies to enable human life on Mars. They are seeking an experienced Linux Site Reliability Engineer to provide expertise in Kubernetes design, maintenance, scaling, and optimization to support critical business functions.

Advanced MaterialsAerospaceManufacturingNational SecuritySpace Travel

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Install, manage, scale and optimize Kubernetes and RKE clusters using Ansible, Terraform and adjacent technologies in production environments

Work closely with other SpaceX engineers to gather requirements, research, evaluate, design, plan, deploy, and support software platforms and related technologies running in Kubernetes within a world-class environment that meets the needs of the demanding SpaceX engineering teams. Build highly resilient, high-performance, scalable, and robust systems

Exercise a high degree of personal 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

Foster an environment of collaboration and cross-training, upskilling the team in Kubernetes expertise and ensuring peers are developed into capable engineers

Drive scripting, self-service and automation to develop solutions to reduce administrative overhead and TOIL

Participate in on-call rotation to handle urgent after-hours work when necessary

Qualification

KubernetesLinux server managementAutomation frameworksPythonGolangGitAnsibleTerraformSoft skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a STEM discipline and 3+ years of systems engineering experience; OR 5+ years of systems engineering experience in lieu of a degree

Experience deploying and supporting Linux servers in physical and virtualized environments (e.g. VMware via automation)

Experience with the Linux shell as well as configuring and extending Linux instances (e.g. kernel modules, cgroups, pki, iptables, interfaces)

Experience supporting and scaling containerized applications in Linux environments

Experience using automation frameworks (e.g. Ansible, Terraform) to manage provisioning and post-provisioning lifecycles of infrastructure and Kubernetes installations

Preferred

Expertise in creating repeatable, reliable, scalable systems architectures, with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and statistics/metrics collection

Expertise in source code version control tools such as Git and Subversion and collaborating on source code via Pull Requests and other Git-based workflows

Strong understanding of Linux Container Runtime

Experience implementing configuration management provisioning and workflow automation solutions via Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and GitOps (e.g. Ansible, AWX/Tower, Vagrant, Puppet, Redfish, Jenkins, cloud-init, ArgoCD, etc)

Experience writing test automation to ensure backwards compatibility of feature and change development for automation processes and Kubernetes deployments

Experience with programming and scripting languages such as Python and Golang to develop software solutions and integrate with external systems to implement automation against RESTful API services

Experience installing, configuring and troubleshooting Kubernetes internals, CNI, CRI and CSI plugins (e.g. Docker, Cri-O, Ceph, Cilium), load balancing (e.g. MetalLB), Service Mesh (e.g. Istio) and software-defined storage (e.g. rook-ceph) in cloud or on-premise environments

Experience developing solutions using Kubernetes patterns to extend system functionality and solve custom use cases (e.g. webhooks, controllers, operators, sidecars)

Experience implementing proactive alert/monitoring workflows and dashboards for Linux systems and Kubernetes deployments using Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB or similar technologies

Experience with dynamic system configuration templating using Jinja, Jsonnet, YAML and Helm