GNC Site Reliability Engineer

4 weeks ago

Hawthorne, California, United States SpaceX Full time

GNC Site Reliability Engineer Job Description

SpaceX is seeking a highly skilled GNC Site Reliability Engineer to join our team. As a GNC Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for operating and scaling custom-built mission-critical products for Guidance Navigational and Control (GNC).

The GNC team performs trajectory design and vehicle simulation and participates in recurring mission-critical launch operations. This position will work with the GNC team to maintain and improve a set of GNC-focused tools.

Responsibilities:

  • Deploy, upgrade, operate/maintain, and scale a suite of mission-critical GNC products and services
  • Provision and maintain virtual and physical servers
  • Work with 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 webapps 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 webapps
  • Develop or improve GNC webapps and tools for better usability, maintainability, and robustness
  • Demo 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

Qualifications:

  • 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
  • Must be comfortable working with mission-critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities

Compensation and Benefits:

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.

ITAR Requirements:

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX's Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should notify the Human Resources Department

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