SpaceX is looking to solve the problem of accelerating launch vehicle production and flight, and scaling the Starlink network by creating and evolving mission-critical applications and systems. The goal is to enable rapid build and reuse of Starship, manage the world's largest satellite constellation, and support scientific research, national security space, and commercial opportunities.
Requirements
- 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 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-Sharp, Java, Scala, Go or similar languages
- Good understanding of version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment and monitoring
Responsibilities
- 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
- Closely collaborate with engineers across all programs to create highly operable, scalable, and maintainable products
- Engage throughout the whole software development lifecycle of services - from inception to design, deployment, operation, and iterative refinement
- Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques
Other
- 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 reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree
- Willing to work extended hours and weekends when needed
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
- SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer
- Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should reach out to EEOCompliance@spacex.com
