Spacecraft Operations Expert
6 days ago
SpaceX is seeking a highly skilled GNC Site Reliability Engineer to join our team. As a key member of our Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) team, you will be responsible for operating and scaling custom-built mission-critical products.
Key Responsibilities- Deploy, Upgrade, and Maintain Mission-Critical Systems
- Provision and maintain virtual and physical servers
- Collaborate with our HPC team to monitor and maintain a 4000+ thread HPC cluster
- Work closely with GNC software engineers to create highly operable and maintainable products
- Add monitoring for web applications and respond to outages
- Manage the underlying computational infrastructure of GNC in collaboration with our IT team
- Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services, from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement
- Make recommendations for future hardware purchases
- Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems
- Provide end-user support to GNC engineering for products, becoming an expert on analysis applications and supporting users in troubleshooting and pointing to features
- Configure automated deployment pipelines for web applications
- Develop or improve GNC web applications and tools for better usability, maintainability, and robustness
- Demonstrate and document new software changes, such as operating system upgrades, shared file system changes, or major tool rollouts
- Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems/IT, engineering, math, or scientific discipline and 2+ years of software development experience OR 4+ years of professional experience building software with site reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree
- Experience with Linux operating systems
- Experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
- 2+ years of systems administration, site reliability engineering, or DevOps experience
- 2+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
- 2+ years of Linux experience
- Expertise with Docker, Vagrant, and Kubernetes or similar technologies
- Extensive experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Terraform
- Experience with build systems (Make, Bazel / Pants / Buck, Gradle) and package management tools (pip, npm)
- Strong understanding of virtualization and hypervisor technologies
- Understanding of databases and data modeling
- Experience with automatically managing dozens or hundreds of servers
- Strong networking knowledge of TCP/IP
- Experience scaling web applications and optimizing applications for performance
- Professional experience with standard front-end technologies like modern HTML, CSS, JavaScript (we use AngularJS, Polymer,, React, and more), REST, JSON
- Solid understanding of UI/UX design to provide intuitive applications
- Experience with high-performance computing systems or large-scale data analysis systems
- Must be comfortable working with mission-critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities
Pay Range:
GNC Site Reliability Engineer/Level I: $120,000.00 - $145,000.00 per year
GNC Site Reliability Engineer/Level II: $140,000.00 - $170,000.00 per year
Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.
Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at SpaceX. You may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards, as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You will also receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, and various other discounts and perks. You may also accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation & will be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year. Exempt employees are eligible for 5 days of sick leave per year.
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