Junior Site Reliability Engineer, GNC (Falcon)

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Job Summary:

SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to enable human life on Mars. The Site Reliability Engineer, GNC will operate and scale mission-critical products for Guidance, Navigation and Control, working closely with the GNC team to maintain and improve GNC-focused tools.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy, upgrade, operate/maintain, and scale a suite of mission-critical GNC products and services

• Provision and maintain virtual and physical servers

• Work with SpaceX HPC team to monitor and maintain a 4000+ thread HPC cluster

• Closely collaborate with GNC software engineers to create highly operable and maintainable products

• Add monitoring for web apps and respond to outages

• Manage the underlying computational infrastructure of GNC in collaboration with IT

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services: from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement

• Make recommendations for future hardware purchases

• Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems

• Provide end-user support to GNC engineering for products by becoming an expert on analysis applications and support users in troubleshooting and pointing to features

• Configure automated deployment pipelines for web apps

• Develop or improve GNC web apps and tools for better usability, maintainability, and robustness

• Demo and document new software changes such as operating system upgrades, shared filesystem changes, or major tool rollouts

• Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, engineering, math, or scientific discipline and 2+ years of software development experience OR 4+ years of professional experience building software with site reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree

• Experience with Linux operating systems

• Experience with Python and Python based development frameworks

Preferred:

• 2+ years of systems administration, site reliability engineering, or DevOps experience

• 2+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks

• 2+ years of Linux experience

• Expertise with Docker, Vagrant, and Kubernetes or similar technologies

• Extensive Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Terraform

• Experience with build systems (Make, Bazel / Pants / Buck, Gradle) and package management tools (pip, npm)

• Strong understanding of virtualization and hypervisor technologies

• Understanding of databases and data modeling

• Experience with automatically managing dozens or hundreds of servers

• Strong networking knowledge of TCP/IP

• Experience scaling web applications and optimizing applications for performance

• Professional experience with standard front-end technologies like modern HTML, CSS, JavaScript (we use AngularJS, Polymer, Backbone.js, React, and more), REST, JSON

• Solid understanding of UI/UX design to provide intuitive applications

• Experience with high-performance computing systems or large-scale data analysis systems

• Must be comfortable working with mission-critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities

Company:

SpaceX is an aviation and aerospace company that designs, manufactures, and launches rockets and spacecraft. Founded in 2002, the company is headquartered in Hawthorne, California, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.