SpaceX is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Starlink program in Redmond, Washington. You will own the design, deployment, and operation of scalable, geo-redundant infrastructure across multiple data centers, with a focus on performance, reliability, and observability for a petabyte-scale environment.

Responsibilities

Qualifications:

Upgrade distributed systems to be sharded and geo-redundant in multiple data centers
Advance deployment, monitoring, and alerting to support a multi-region environment
Manage petabyte-scale bare-metal compute clusters
Collaborate with engineers across programs to create highly operable, scalable, and maintainable products
Engage throughout the software development lifecycle from inception to design, deployment, operation, and iterative refinement
Focus on performance bottlenecks and improvement techniques
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline; 5 years of software development experience; or 7+ years of professional experience in site reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree
Experience with Linux operating systems
5+ years of rigorous experience with site reliability or DevOps
Experience with Kubernetes and Istio for on-premise deployment
Experience with 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

About the role

SpaceX is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Starlink program in Redmond, Washington. You will own the design, deployment, and operation of scalable, geo-redundant infrastructure across multiple data centers, with a focus on performance, reliability, and observability for a petabyte-scale environment.

Responsibilities

Qualifications:

Upgrade distributed systems to be sharded and geo-redundant in multiple data centers
Advance deployment, monitoring, and alerting to support a multi-region environment
Manage petabyte-scale bare-metal compute clusters
Collaborate with engineers across programs to create highly operable, scalable, and maintainable products
Engage throughout the software development lifecycle from inception to design, deployment, operation, and iterative refinement
Focus on performance bottlenecks and improvement techniques
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline; 5 years of software development experience; or 7+ years of professional experience in site reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree
Experience with Linux operating systems
5+ years of rigorous experience with site reliability or DevOps
Experience with Kubernetes and Istio for on-premise deployment
Experience with 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

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