Site Reliability Engineer (Application Software)

Hawthorne, CAfull time

On Site

mid

$125k–$160k

H1B: no

SpaceX Site Reliability Engineer at SpaceX builds and maintains mission-critical software tools to accelerate vehicle software delivery and testing. The role involves managing infrastructure, collaborating with engineers, and improving software development lifecycle processes.

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

Qualification

Bachelor’s degree in computer scienceExperience with Linux operating systemsExperience with build systems (BazelExperience with Terraform

Required

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 3+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps in lieu of a degree
1+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
Experience with Linux operating systems

Preferred

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

Benefits

Dental
Vision
401(k)
Equity/RSU
Parental Leave
Life Insurance

Company

SpaceX

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