Sr. Network Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield)

Hawthorne, CAfull time

On Site

senior

$165k–$265k

H1B: no

SpaceX Sr. Network Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield) at SpaceX designs, operates, and scales GPU/CPU infrastructure supporting national security missions. The role includes managing deployments, developing automation, and collaborating with AI engineers to create scalable products.

Responsibilities

Manage GPU/CPU infrastructure deployments to Top Secret data centers
Manage and provide support for GPU as a service for external customers on bare metal hardware and virtualized platforms
Design, validate, and productize solutions for AI clusters (100k+ GPU scale)
Develop automation to deploy and manage on-premise Kubernetes\AI clusters, and operating systems
Deploy and manage core infrastructure such as databases, monitoring and distributed storage
Closely collaborate with AI engineers to create highly scalable, operable, and maintainable products
Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services -- from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement
Monitoring and alerting supporting systems to have high availability
Identify areas for improvement and create innovative solutions that enable high system availability
Mentor and train junior engineers
As a senior engineer you must lead the team to technical excellence – your decisions guide the team

Qualification

Bachelor’s degree in computer science5+ year of experience with KubernetesExperience with TerraformExperience scripting in BashDevelopment experience in PythonExperience managing Kubernetes clustersDeep understanding of testing

Required

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline and 5+ years of professional experience with Linux operating systems; OR 7+ years of professional experience in software, DevOps, or site reliability engineering in lieu of a degree
5+ year of experience with Kubernetes
5+ year of experience managing Linux operating systems
Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other infrastructure tools
Experience with containerization technologies (i.e. OCI containers, Kubernetes)
Experience scripting in Bash, Python, or other similar languages
Development experience in Python, C++, or Go

Preferred

5+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
Experience managing Kubernetes clusters, not just using them
Knowledge of Linux boot process and systems configuration
Deep understanding of testing, continuous integration, build, deployment & continuous monitoring
Understanding of relevant build technologies, such as Bazel and Makefiles
Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques
Understanding of distributed databases and data modeling
Experience with automatically managing thousands of servers (eg: Terraform or Ansible)

Benefits

Dental
Vision
401(k)
Parental Leave
Life Insurance

Company

SpaceX

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