Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Top Secret Clearance (Starlink)

The role

You will solve challenges to improve the utilization of deployed hardware for the Starlink program. You will work with a team of engineers to design and produce solutions for distributed systems and petabyte scale bare metal compute clusters.

What you will do

• 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
• Collaborate with engineers across all programs to create operable, scalable, and maintainable products
• Engage throughout the whole software development lifecycle of services
• Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques

Required qualifications

• 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 re
• Experience with Linux operating systems
• Active Top-Secret or Top-Secret SCI
• Willing to work extended hours and weekends when needed
• U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful, permanent resident, Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department

Nice to have

• 5+ years of rigorous experience with site reliability or DevOps
• Experience with Kubernetes and Istio for on-premise deployment
• Experience with in-stream, data processing and analytics using open source platforms such as Apache Kafka, Spark, HBase, HDFS, Flink
• Experience troubleshooting hardware and network-layer issues
• Programming experience in Python, C#, Java, Scala, Go or similar languages
• Good understanding of version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment and monitoring

Benefits

• Company stock or long-term cash awards
• 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 leave

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful, permanent resident, Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S.
• Active Top Secret or TS/SCI required
• Subject to pre-employment drug and random drug and alcohol testing

About the company

SpaceX is developing technologies to enable human life on Mars. They are deploying Starlink, a large satellite constellation providing broadband internet.