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Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Starshield)

SpaceX· Starshield Software Engineering
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Hawthorne, CA$165k - $270kfull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Site Reliability Engineer role for SpaceX Starshield, focusing on building and deploying reliable, secure software systems and infrastructure for government-focused Starlink-derived capabilities including earth observation, communications, and hosted payloads.

Responsibilities

  • Develop automation to deploy and manage compute resources both on-premises and in the cloud
  • Deploy and manage core infrastructure such as databases, monitoring and 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

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline and 5+ years of professional experience with Linux operating systems; OR 7+ years of professional experience in software, DevOps, or site reliability engineering in lieu of a degree
  • 5+ year of experience with Kubernetes
  • 5+ year of experience with Linux operating systems
  • Experience in Bash, Python, and/or other scripting languages

Skills

Required:LinuxKubernetesScripting

Benefits

  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • access to a 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation
  • 10 or more paid holidays per year
  • paid sick leave per company policy
  • stock or long-term incentives and potential discretionary bonuses
  • employee stock purchase plan
  • discounts and perks
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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