SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER (APPLICATION SOFTWARE)

The application software team is the central nervous system of SpaceX we create mission critical applications that are used throughout SpaceX to accelerate launch vehicle production & flight as well as systems that allow Starlink to grow into a worldwide fast, reliable Internet service.

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to operate & scale custom-built mission-critical software products for engineering, test, & launch. These products are used to deliver the software flying rockets, spacecraft, satellites, & more - every time a Falcon 9 launches, a Dragon capsule docks with the ISS, or a Starlink satellite connects a new community, the software responsible for it was created with the tools you'll build & maintain.

SpaceX relies on our vehicle software being built quickly & correctly, tested rigorously, & rapidly iterated on. This allows us to pioneer technologies that were science fiction a decade ago; you'll work to ensure that software delivery at SpaceX keeps pace with other engineering efforts, to enable our goal of making humanity multi-planetary.

Aerospace experience is not required to be successful here - rather we look for smart, motivated, collaborative engineers who love solving problems & want to make an impact on a super inspiring mission. We are looking for engineers who treat fellow teammates with fairness, respect, & support. You will have full ownership of challenging problems, working with a team of enthusiastic engineers to design & produce solutions that enable SpaceX to move towards our goals at a rapid pace. The success of the missions at SpaceX depends on the software that you & your team produce.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Deploy, upgrade, operate/maintain, & scale our suite of mission critical products & services
• Manage our underlying infrastructure as code & use modern observability tools to tell a complete story of application health
• Closely collaborate with software engineers to create highly operable & maintainable products
• Engage in & improve the whole software development lifecycle of services -- from inception & design, through deployment, operation, & refinement
• Practice sustainable incident response & blameless postmortems
• Provide end-user support to vehicle software engineers for products
• Participate in the teams on-call rotation periodically
• Focus on performance bottlenecks & performance improvement techniques

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, information systems, or engineering discipline; OR 3+ years of professional experience with site reliability or DevOps without a degree
• Experience with Linux operating systems

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

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

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be able to work extended hours & weekends as needed.

ITAR REQUIREMENTS:

• To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.  

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence & qualifications & 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 SpaceXs Affirmative Action Plan for veterans & individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should notify the Human Resources Department at (310) 363-6000.