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Site Reliability Engineer, GNC (Falcon)

SpaceX is developing the technologies to enable human life beyond Earth and is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to operate and scale mission-critical Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) tools for Falcon launch operations. The role focuses on running and improving GNC-focused infrastructure including HPC clusters, CI/CD pipelines, data analysis systems, and web tools while collaborating closely with GNC software and IT teams.

Skills

  • Proficient with Linux administration and troubleshooting
  • Strong Python development experience and familiarity with Python frameworks
  • Experience with HPC systems and large-scale compute clusters
  • Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Configuration management and infra-as-code (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet)
  • CI/CD and build systems (Make, Bazel/Pants/Buck, Gradle)
  • Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP) and virtualization knowledge
  • Familiarity with web frontend technologies and REST/JSON
  • Monitoring, alerting and incident response practices

Responsibilities

  • Deploy, upgrade, operate, and scale mission-critical GNC products and services
  • Provision and maintain virtual and physical servers and collaborate with IT on computational infrastructure
  • Monitor and maintain a 4000+ thread HPC cluster in partnership with the HPC team
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment for web apps and simulation software
  • Implement monitoring and respond to outages; run incident response and postmortems
  • Provide end-user support and troubleshooting for GNC engineering tools and workflows
  • Develop and improve GNC web apps and analysis tools for usability, maintainability, and performance
  • Document demos, major changes (OS upgrades, filesystem changes), and recommend hardware purchases
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across systems and applications

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or related field plus 2+ years software development experience
  • OR 4+ years professional experience building software with site reliability/DevOps in lieu of degree
  • Must meet ITAR eligibility (U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee) or be able to obtain required authorizations

Benefits

  • Base salary (range varies by level) plus potential long-term incentives (stock/options) and discretionary bonuses
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan access
  • Short and long-term disability and life insurance
  • Paid parental leave, paid vacation (accrue ~3 weeks), and 10+ paid holidays
  • Paid sick leave per company policy and employee discounts
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