Site Reliability Engineer (Application Software)

About the role

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER (APPLICATION SOFTWARE)

The application software team is the central nervous system of SpaceX. We create mission critical applications that are used throughout SpaceX to accelerate launch vehicle production and flight as well as systems that allow Starlink to grow into a worldwide fast, reliable Internet service. Our team is currently creating a platform and tooling that enables access to the compute, storage, and networking required to achieve those goals.

The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals and a passion for infrastructure: reliability, stability, proactive maintenance, and scalability. You understand the system before you change it, solve hard problems, communicate clearly with stakeholders and teammates, and take ownership of work that manufacturing depends on.

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 3+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps in lieu of a degree

- Experience with Linux operating systems

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

- Programming experience in Python, C#, Go, JavaScript, etc

- Experience with on premise compute, storage, and/or networking infrastructure in production

- 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 (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, etc.)