Aerospace experience is not required. We value smart, motivated, collaborative engineers who treat teammates with fairness, respect, and support, and who want to take full ownership of challenging problems to help make humanity multi-planetary.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale our suite of mission-critical products and services
Manage our underlying infrastructure as code and use modern observability tools to provide a complete picture of application health
Closely collaborate with software engineers to design and build highly operable, maintainable, and testable systems
Engage in and improve the entire software development lifecycle — from inception and design through deployment, operation, and continuous refinement
Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
Provide high-quality end-user support to vehicle software engineers
Participate in the team’s on-call rotation
Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks using measurement and creative engineering
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 7+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps in lieu of a degree
3+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
Experience with Linux operating systems
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Experience with build systems (Bazel, Buck, Make, etc.)
Experience with both container and virtualization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM, etc.)
Experience with databases and data modeling (Postgres, MySQL, ClickHouse, etc.)
Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools for managing fleets of servers
Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar automation frameworks
Knowledge of the technologies that predate and underpin modern cloud infrastructure, with the ability to translate high-level developer experiences into specific implementations from first principles
Ability to work with mission-critical and sensitive systems with appropriate urgency and care
Ability to communicate effectively with customers, peers, and management in both formal and informal settings
Experience with full-stack development (the team primarily uses Python, JavaScript, and C#; end users primarily use C++)
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
Pay Range
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer: $165,000.00 - $230,000.00/per year
Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.
Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at SpaceX. You may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards, as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You will also receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, and various other discounts and perks. You may also accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation & will be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year. Employees accrue paid sick leave pursuant to Company policy which satisfies or exceeds the accrual, carryover, and use requirements of the law.
ITAR REQUIREMENTS
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. Learn more about the ITAR here.
SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should reach out to EEOCompliance@spacex.com.
