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GNC Site Reliability Engineer

2 months ago


Hawthorne, California, United States SpaceX Full time
Job Summary

SpaceX is seeking a highly skilled GNC Site Reliability Engineer to play a critical role in the development of our mission-critical products.

Key Responsibilities
  • Deploy, upgrade, operate, and scale our suite of mission-critical GNC products and services
  • Provision and maintain virtual and physical servers
  • Work with the SpaceX HPC team to monitor and maintain a 4000+ thread HPC cluster
  • Closely collaborate 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 IT
  • 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 by becoming an expert on analysis applications and support 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 filesystem changes, or major tool rollouts
  • Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques
Requirements
  • 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
Preferred Skills and Experience
  • 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
Compensation and Benefits

SpaceX offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including 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.

As an exempt employee, you will be eligible for 5 days of sick leave per year and 3 weeks of paid vacation. You will also have 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.

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We welcome applications from qualified candidates who share our values and are passionate about making a difference in the space industry.