Site Reliability Engineer, Kubernetes Platform (Top Secret Clearance)

The role

The Site Reliability Engineer designs scalable systems to support growing data products. You will develop automation, manage compute resources, and support the full lifecycle of services.

What you will do

• Develop automation to deploy and manage compute resources both on-premises and in the cloud
• Build, maintain, and scale on-premises hardware systems designed to host GPU-accelerated machine learning workloads
• Deploy and manage core infrastructure such as databases, monitoring and storage
• Closely collaborate with software engineers to create highly scalable, operable and maintainable products
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience in software, DevOps, or site reliability engineering in lieu of a degre
• 1+ year of experience with Kubernetes
• 1+ year of experience with Linux operating systems
• Experience in Bash, Python, and/or other scripting languages
• Experience building, maintaining, and scaling on-premises and/or cloud systems
• Active Top Secret, Top Secret SCI, or DOE Level Q clearance
• Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed

Nice to have

• Experience hosting and pushing the state of the art in inferential model benchmarks
• Experience with systems administration, site reliability engineering, or DevOps engineering
• Experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
• Experience with virtualization and hypervisor technologies
• Experience with automatically managing dozens or hundreds of servers
• Knowledge of performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques
• Excellent communications skills

Benefits

• Company stock or long-term cash awards
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• 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, or Asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
• An active clearance may subject you to pre-employment drug and random drug and alcohol testing

About the company

SpaceX is developing technologies to enable human life on Mars. The company was founded on the belief that a future where humanity explores the stars is more exciting than one where we are not.