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SpaceX · 1 day ago

IT Linux Systems Engineer

Hawthorne, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$120K/yr - $160K/yr

3+ years exp

SpaceX is actively developing technologies to enable human life on Mars, and they are seeking an experienced IT Linux Systems Engineer. The role involves working with Linux-based technologies, collaborating with engineering teams, and driving automation and system improvements to support SpaceX's ambitious goals.

Advanced MaterialsAerospaceManufacturingNational SecuritySpace Travel

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Work closely with other SpaceX engineers to gather requirements, research, evaluate, design, plan, deploy, and support Linux-based/open source software platforms and related technologies in a world-class environment that meets the needs of the demanding SpaceX engineering teams

Build highly-resilient, high-performance, scalable, and flexible systems

Exercise a high degree of 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

Drive scripting and automation to develop solutions to common problems

Participate in on-call rotation to support critical systems round-the-clock

Qualification

Linux serversBash scriptingPythonLinux-based systemsConfiguration managementNetworking experienceSource control toolsCommunicationSelf-starterProblem-solving

Required

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, physics, or information systems, and 3+ years of systems engineering experience; OR 5+ years of systems engineering experience in lieu of a degree

Experience with Linux servers in physical and virtualized environments

Preferred

Experience with Linux shell (bash scripting, output parsing, etc.)

Experience with Python or other scripting and automation languages

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

Expert working knowledge (including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot) Linux-based and open-source systems and technologies such as Apache, BIND, HAProxy, NGINX, sendmail/postfix, iptables, etc

Experience with ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) or other centralized logging solutions

Expertise in source code and version control tools such as Git and Subversion

Experience with configuration management (Puppet or Ansible), provisioning, infrastructure as code, and other DevOps concepts and tools (Vagrant, Docker, Kubernetes, etc)

Understanding of developing web and C/C++ applications and build processes

Networking experience in IPv4, switching, routing, firewalls and HA architecture

Comfortable working with mission critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities

Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate with internal/external customers, vendors, management etc. in both formal and informal situations