GNC Site Reliability Engineer

1 week 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, ensuring high availability and performance.
  • Collaborate with the SpaceX HPC team to monitor and maintain a 4000+ thread HPC cluster, optimizing its performance and efficiency.
  • Work closely with GNC software engineers to create highly operable and maintainable products, ensuring seamless integration with our spacecraft systems.
  • Add monitoring for web applications and respond to outages, minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity.
  • Manage the underlying computational infrastructure of GNC in collaboration with IT, ensuring scalability and reliability.
  • Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services, from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement, ensuring continuous improvement and innovation.
  • Make recommendations for future hardware purchases, aligning with our company's strategic goals and objectives.
  • Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems, identifying root causes and implementing corrective actions to prevent future incidents.
  • 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, ensuring efficient and reliable deployment.
  • Develop or improve GNC web applications and tools for better usability, maintainability, and robustness, enhancing the overall user experience.
  • Demonstrate and document new software changes, such as operating system upgrades, shared filesystem changes, or major tool rollouts, ensuring transparency and accountability.
  • Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques, optimizing our systems for maximum efficiency and performance.
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, ensuring proficiency in system administration and troubleshooting.
  • Experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks, ensuring expertise in programming and software development.
Preferred Skills and Experience
  • 2+ years of systems administration, site reliability engineering, or DevOps experience, ensuring a strong foundation in system administration and software development.
  • 2+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks, ensuring expertise in programming and software development.
  • 2+ years of Linux experience, ensuring proficiency in system administration and troubleshooting.
  • Expertise with Docker, Vagrant, and Kubernetes or similar technologies, ensuring familiarity with containerization and orchestration.
  • Extensive experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, ensuring proficiency in infrastructure automation.
  • Experience with build systems (Make, Bazel / Pants / Buck, Gradle) and package management tools (pip, npm), ensuring expertise in software development and deployment.
  • Strong understanding of virtualization and hypervisor technologies, ensuring familiarity with virtualization and cloud computing.
  • Understanding of databases and data modeling, ensuring expertise in data management and analysis.
  • Experience with automatically managing dozens or hundreds of servers, ensuring proficiency in system administration and scalability.
  • Strong networking knowledge of TCP/IP, ensuring expertise in network administration and troubleshooting.
  • Experience scaling web applications and optimizing applications for performance, ensuring expertise in software development and deployment.
  • Professional experience with standard front-end technologies like modern HTML, CSS, JavaScript (we use AngularJS, Polymer,, React, and more), REST, JSON, ensuring expertise in web development and user experience.
  • Solid understanding of UI/UX design to provide intuitive applications, ensuring expertise in user experience and interface design.
  • Experience with high-performance computing systems or large-scale data analysis systems, ensuring expertise in high-performance computing and data analysis.
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.

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