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Sr. Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield)

SpaceX· Starshield Software Engineering
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Washington, DC$165k - $265kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior software engineer focused on Starshield's GPU/AI infrastructure, responsible for designing, operating and scaling on-premise AI clusters and infrastructure to support national security missions, including SRE/DevOps, GPU platforms, automation, and collaboration with AI engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Manage GPU/CPU infrastructure deployments to Top Secret data centers
  • Manage and provide support for GPU as a service for external customers on bare metal hardware and virtualized platforms
  • Design, validate, and productize solutions for AI clusters (100k+ GPU scale)
  • Develop automation to deploy and manage on-premise Kubernetes/AI clusters, and operating systems
  • Deploy and manage core infrastructure such as databases, monitoring and distributed storage
  • Closely collaborate with AI 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
  • Identify areas for improvement and create innovative solutions that enable high system availability
  • Mentor and train junior engineers
  • Lead the team to technical excellence – your decisions guide the team

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 managing 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

Skills

Required:KubernetesLinuxTerraformAnsiblePython
Nice to have:C++

Benefits

  • long-term incentives, including company stock or long-term cash awards
  • potential discretionary bonuses
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • paid vacation and holidays
  • paid sick leave policies
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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