SpaceX Linux Systems Engineer responsible for designing, deploying, and supporting Linux-based infrastructure at SpaceX. Focus on scalable, high-performance systems and automation.
Responsibilities
Work closely with other SpaceX engineers to gather requirements, research, evaluate, design, plan, deploy, and support Linux-based/open source software platforms and related technologies in a world-class environment that meets the needs of the demanding SpaceX engineering teams. Build highly-resilient, high-performance, scalable, and flexible systems.
Exercise a high degree of responsibility for the processes, systems, and tools you create and manage; all supporting the goal of making humanity an interplanetary species.
Make recommendations, justify, and implement improvements using an accepted change control methodology.
Work within a diverse group to design and deliver creative solutions and resolve problems in a timely and proactive manner by interacting with internal business units.
Define, document and follow standards and best practices for systems design, testing, and implementation.
Drive scripting and automation to develop solutions to common problems.
Participate in on-call rotation to support critical systems round-the-clock.
Qualification
Bachelor’s degree in computer scienceExpertise in creating repeatableExperience with ELK (Elasticsearch
Required
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, physics, or information systems, and 3+ years of systems engineering experience; OR 5+ years of systems engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
Experience with Linux servers in physical and virtualized environments.
Preferred
Experience with Linux shell (bash scripting, output parsing, etc.).
Experience with Python or other scripting and automation languages.
Expertise in creating repeatable, reliable, scalable systems architectures, with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and statistics/metrics collection.
Expert working knowledge (including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot) Linux-based and open-source systems and technologies such as Apache, BIND, HAProxy, NGINX, sendmail/postfix, iptables, etc.
Experience with ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) or other centralized logging solutions.
Expertise in source code and version control tools such as Git and Subversion.
Experience with configuration management (Puppet or Ansible), provisioning, infrastructure as code, and other DevOps concepts and tools (Vagrant, Docker, Kubernetes, etc).
Understanding of developing web and C/C++ applications and build processes.
