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SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP

Sr. GNC DevOps Engineer (Falcon)

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP, Hawthorne, California, United States, 90250


SR. GNC DEVOPS ENGINEER

SpaceX is looking for a Sr. GNC DevOps Engineer to operate and scale custom-built mission-critical products for Guidance Navigational and Control (GNC). The GNC team performs trajectory design and vehicle simulation and participates in recurring mission-critical launch operations. This position will work with the GNC team to maintain and improve a set of GNC-focused tools. Examples of these products include Monte Carlo simulations on a high-performance computing cluster, automated data analysis systems, continuous integration systems for rocket and simulation software, GNC analysis infrastructure, and vehicle configuration verification tools. The ideal candidate will be flexible, possess broad skills across product operations and software development, and flourish in a fast-paced and challenging environment.

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 webapps 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 productsby becoming an expert on analysis applications and support users in troubleshooting and pointing to features

Configure automated deployment pipelines for webapps

Develop or improve GNC webapps 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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, engineering, math, or scientific discipline and5 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

Experience with Python and Python based development frameworks

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

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

5+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks

5+ years ofLinux experience

Expertise with Docker,Vagrant, and Kubernetesor 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

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

Pay Range:

GNC DevOps Engineer /Senior: $160,000.00 - $220,000.00/per year

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at SpaceX. You may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards, as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You will also receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, and various other discounts and perks. You may also accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and will be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year. Exempt employees are eligible for 5 days of sick leave per year.

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