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Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink)

SpaceX· Starlink Network Engineering
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Hybrid (Redmond, WA)$165k - $270kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Site Reliability Engineer to support Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite broadband program. Responsibilities include upgrading distributed systems, multi-region deployment, and collaboration across programs to deliver scalable, maintainable products and improve performance in a multi-datacenter environment.

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:KubernetesIstioOpen source data processing / analyticsProgrammingTroubleshooting hardware and network issuesSoftware development lifecycle

Benefits

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

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