SpaceX

Sr. GNC Site Reliability Engineer (Falcon)

Hawthorne, CA, United States

$160-220k

Full Time

4 months ago

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Job description

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.

SR. GNC SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER

SpaceX is looking for a Sr. GNC Site Reliability Engineer to operate and scale 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. Examples of these products include Monte Carlo simulations on a high-performance computing cluster, automated data analysis systems, continuous integration systems for rocket and simulation software, GNC analysis infrastructure, and vehicle configuration verification tools. The ideal candidate will be flexible, possess broad skills across product operations and software development, and flourish in a fast-paced and challenging environment.

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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, engineering, math, or scientific discipline and 5 years of software development experience OR 7+ 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:

5+ years of systems administration, site reliability engineering, or DevOps experience
5+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
5+ 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, Backbone.js, 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:

Pay Range:

GNC DevOps Engineer /Senior: $160,000.00 - $220,000.00/per year

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.

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 and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, and various other discounts and perks. You may also accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and 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. Learn more about the ITAR here.

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 at (310) 363-6000.