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Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink)

SpaceX· Starlink Network Engineering
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Hawthorne, CA$165k - $265kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Site Reliability Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available Starlink software and infrastructure across multi-region environments.

Responsibilities

  • Upgrade existing distributed systems to become sharded and geo-redundant in multiple data centers
  • Advance existing deployment, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure to support a multi-region environment
  • Manage petabyte scale bare metal compute clusters
  • Closely collaborate with engineers across all programs to create highly operable, scalable, and maintainable products
  • Engage throughout the whole software development lifecycle of services -- from inception to design, deployment, operation, and iterative refinement
  • Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, 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

Skills

Required:Site reliability engineering / DevOps
Nice to have:Kubernetes and IstioOpen source data processing / analytics toolsProgrammingMonitoring and CI/CD

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • discounts and perks
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • paid sick leave as per company policy
  • stock or long-term incentives
  • employee stock purchase plan
Last updated Jul 29, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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