Site Reliability Engineer — HPC & Automation (Silicon Engineering)
Redmond, WAfull time
On Site
entry
$125k–$150k
H1B: no
SpaceX Site Reliability Engineer manages and scales high performance computing infrastructure for Starlink silicon development. The role involves automation, infrastructure as code, and performance optimization.
Responsibilities
Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale our suite of clusters and services
Collaborate with engineers to develop automated, full turnkey solutions for silicon simulation workflows to speed up project timelines
Manage our underlying infrastructure as code and use modern observability tools to provide a complete picture of cluster and infrastructure health
Operate the continuous integration pipeline, build and release systems, and version control across the environment
Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks using measurement and creative engineering
Qualification
Bachelor’s degree in computer scienceNetworking knowledge of TCP/IPExperience with Terraform
Required
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience in system administration, high performance computing, or site reliability engineering
1+ years of development experience with Bash, Python, and/or other programming languages
1+ years of experience with Linux operating systems
Preferred
Familiarity with containerization technologies (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes)
Knowledge in computer system concepts (computer architecture, computer organization, operating systems and concurrency)
Experience with databases and data modeling (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite)
Networking knowledge of TCP/IP
Experience with high performance computing and workload managers (e.g., Slurm, LSF)
Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar automation frameworks
Experience building monitoring and alerting as code (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, custom exporters)
Experience with CI/CD automation at scale (e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo, build systems)
