Senior Site Reliability Engineer
On-sitePosted July 29, 2026
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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