Site Reliability Engineer — HPC & Automation (Silicon Engineering)

The role

You will design, operate, scale, and automate high performance computing infrastructure used to develop chips for Starlink. You will work with cross-disciplinary teams to enable faster design-iterations and simulations.

What you will do

• Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale clusters and services
• Collaborate with engineers to develop automated, full turnkey solutions for silicon simulation workflows
• Manage underlying infrastructure as code
• Use modern observability tools to provide a complete picture of cluster and infrastructure health
• Operate the continuous integration pipeline, build and release systems, and version control
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks using measurement and creative engineering

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience in system administration, high performance computing, or site reliabili
• 1+ years of development experience with Bash, Python, and/or other programming languages
• 1+ years of experience with Linux operating systems
• Ability to work extended hours and weekends as needed to meet critical milestones

Nice to have

• Familiarity with containerization technologies (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge in computer system concepts (computer architecture, computer organization, operating systems and concurrency)
• Experience with databases and data modeling (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite)
• Networking knowledge of TCP/IP
• Experience with high performance computing and workload managers (e.g., Slurm, LSF)
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar automation frameworks
• Experience building monitoring and alerting as code (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, custom exporters)
• Experience with CI/CD automation at scale (e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo, build systems)
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools for managing fleets of servers
• Experience with using & building REST API clients/servers

Benefits

• Company stock or long-term cash awards
• Potential discretionary bonuses
• Ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• 3 weeks of paid vacation
• 10 or more paid holidays per year
• Paid sick time in compliance with state and federal law
• Company shuttles from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office Monday to Friday

Before you apply

• Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the requ

About the company

SpaceX is developing technologies to enable human life on Mars. They are leveraging experience in building rockets and spacecraft to deploy Starlink, a large satellite constellation providing broadband internet.