Application Reliability Engineer

1 week ago

Hawthorne, California, United States SpaceX Full time

At SpaceX, we believe in a future where humanity explores the cosmos, and we are committed to developing the technologies that will make this vision a reality. Our mission is to enable human life on Mars.

APPLICATION RELIABILITY ENGINEER

The application software division serves as the backbone of SpaceX, crafting essential applications that facilitate the production and flight of launch vehicles, as well as supporting the expansion of Starlink into a global, high-speed Internet service.

We are seeking a seasoned Application Reliability Engineer to manage and enhance our bespoke, mission-critical software solutions for engineering, testing, and launch operations. These solutions are integral to the software that powers rockets, spacecraft, satellites, and more. Each Falcon 9 launch, Dragon capsule docking with the ISS, or Starlink satellite connection is supported by the software you will help build and maintain.

SpaceX is dedicated to ensuring that our vehicle software is developed swiftly and accurately, rigorously tested, and continuously improved. This approach allows us to innovate technologies that were once considered science fiction. You will play a crucial role in ensuring that software delivery at SpaceX keeps pace with our engineering initiatives, driving us toward our goal of making humanity multi-planetary.

While aerospace experience is not a prerequisite for success in this role, we value intelligent, motivated, and collaborative engineers who are passionate about problem-solving and making a significant impact on an inspiring mission. We seek engineers who treat their colleagues with fairness, respect, and support. You will take full ownership of complex challenges, collaborating with a team of enthusiastic engineers to design and implement solutions that propel SpaceX toward its objectives at an accelerated pace. The success of our missions relies heavily on the software produced by you and your team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale our suite of mission-critical products and services.
  • Manage our underlying infrastructure as code and utilize modern observability tools to provide a comprehensive view of application health.
  • Collaborate closely with software engineers to develop highly operable and maintainable products.
  • Engage in and enhance the entire software development lifecycle of services—from inception and design to deployment, operation, and refinement.
  • Implement sustainable incident response practices and conduct blameless postmortems.
  • Provide end-user support to vehicle software engineers for our products.
  • Participate in the team's on-call rotation as needed.
  • Focus on identifying performance bottlenecks and implementing performance improvement strategies.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related engineering discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience in site reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree.
  • Proficiency with Linux operating systems.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

  • 5+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability engineering, or system administration.
  • 3+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks.
  • Familiarity with source code and version control tools such as Git or Subversion.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools for managing server fleets automatically.
  • Knowledge of build systems (Make, Bazel/Pants/Buck, Gradle, etc.) and package management tools (pip, npm, etc.).
  • Experience with container and virtualization technologies (VirtualBox, KVM, Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, EC2, GCE).
  • Familiarity with automation frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
  • Understanding of TCP/IP networking.
  • Experience with databases and data modeling.
  • Familiarity with workflow and issue management tools like JIRA.
  • Ability to work with mission-critical and sensitive systems, demonstrating a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities.
  • Strong communication skills to interact with customers, peers, and management in both formal and informal settings.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

  • Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as required.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

Pay Range:
Application Reliability Engineer/Level I: $120,000 - $145,000 per year
Application Reliability Engineer/Level II: $140,000 - $170,000 per year

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, education, and experience. Base salary is just one component of your total rewards package at SpaceX, which may also include long-term incentives, potential discretionary bonuses, and comprehensive benefits.

ITAR REQUIREMENTS:

  • To comply with U.S. Government export regulations, applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugees, or asylees, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment is based on merit, competence, and qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

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