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Sr. Kubernetes Platform Site Reliability Engineer – Starlink
| Company | SpaceX |
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| Location | Redmond, WA, USA |
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| Salary | $160000 – $220000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline and 5+ years of professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps; OR 7+ years of professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps in lieu of a degree
- 2+ years of professional experience with Linux operating systems
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other infrastructure tools
- Experience with containerization technologies (i.e. OCI containers, Kubernetes)
- Experience scripting in Bash, Python, or other similar languages
- Development experience in Python, C++, or Go
Responsibilities
- Develop automation to deploy and manage on-premise Kubernetes clusters
- Deploy and manage core infrastructure such as databases, monitoring and distributed storage
- Closely collaborate with software engineers to create highly scalable, operable, and maintainable products
- Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services — from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement
- Monitoring and alerting supporting systems to have high availability
- Hands-on integration and troubleshooting across the entire Starlink stack
- Identify areas for improvement and create innovative solutions that enable high system availability
Preferred Qualifications
- 1+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
- Experience managing Kubernetes clusters, not just using them
- Knowledge of Linux boot process and systems configuration
- Deep understanding of testing, continuous integration, build, deployment & continuous monitoring
- Understanding of relevant build technologies, such as Bazel and Makefiles
- Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques
- Understanding of distributed databases and data modeling
- Experience with automatically managing dozens, hundreds, or thousands of servers (eg: Terraform or Ansible)
- Strong networking knowledge of TCP/IP
- Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate with customers, peers, management etc. in both formal and informal situations
