Site Reliability Engineer, AI Infrastructure (Starshield)
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for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We should only include sections when posting has real specific content. For Schedule, we have mention of extended hours and weekends as needed, travel domestically and globally in future. That's schedule-related. So we could include a Schedule section with that info.
Pay section: we have Pay Range details.
Benefits section: we have benefits details.
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Let's extract details precisely.
About the role: The introductory paragraphs before "As an engineer focused on Starshield's software and GPU infrastructure..." That's description. We'll combine into a paragraph.
Responsibilities: list items:
- 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
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Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline and 1+ years of professional experience in site reliability engineering or DevOps; OR 3+ years of professional experience in site reliability engineering or DevOps in lieu of a degree
- 1+ years of professional experience with 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
Preferred Skills And Experience:
- 1+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
- Experience managing Kubernetes clusters, not just using them
- Knowledge of Linux boot process and systems configuration
- Deep understanding of testing, continuous integration, build, deployment & continuous monitoring
- Understanding of relevant build technologies, such as Bazel and Makefiles
- Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques
- Understanding of distributed databases and data modeling
- Experience with automatically managing thousands of servers (eg: Terraform or Ansible)
- Strong networking knowledge of TCP/IP
- Cloud virtualization experience (as the cloud provider)
- Experience using NVIDIA GPU deployment stacks (Blackwell/Rubin)
- Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate with customers, peers, management etc. in both formal and informal situations
- Active Top Secret, Top Secret SCI, or DOE Level Q clearance
Additional Requirements:
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed
- Must be willing to travel domestically and globally in the future when needed
- This position requires successfully obtaining and maintaining a Top Secret Security Clearance as a condition of employment. While the clearance may not be immediately necessary upon hire, we encourage you to initiate the application process promptly upon accepting this offer. Your ability to secure the necessary clearance is essential for fulfilling key responsibilities of the role. Should you be unable to obtain it, SpaceX reserves the right to modify or terminate your employment to align with operational needs.
Compensation And Benefits:
- Pay Range: Level 1: $125,000.00 - $160,000.00 Level 2: $145,000.00 - $195,000.00
- 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 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.
- Employees accrue paid sick leave pursuant to Company policy which satisfies or exceeds the accrual, carryover, and use requirements of the law.
- Those with an active clearance will receive a 10% differential, up to an additional $20,000 annually, once officially briefed into a classified program.
We need sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe combine Basic Qualifications and Additional Requirements?), Skills (Preferred Skills And Experience), Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
But we have both Requirements and Qualifications headings possible. The instruction list includes Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We could have Requirements (Basic Qualifications) and Skills (Preferred). Additional Requirements could go under Requirements as well, but we might separate.
Better: Use Requirements for Basic Qualifications, Skills for Preferred Skills And Experience, and maybe Additional Requirements could be part of Requirements or Schedule? Actually additional requirements about clearance, travel, hours could be under Requirements as well. But we already have Requirements for qualifications; we could add extra bullet points there.
Alternatively, we could have Requirements (Basic Qualifications) and Additional Requirements as a separate section? Not in list. The list includes Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. Could treat Qualifications as Basic Qualifications, Requirements as Additional Requirements? Hmm.
Given the instruction: "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)". So we can choose any of those. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content.
We have content for About the role, Responsibilities, Basic Qualifications (could be Requirements or Qualifications), Preferred Skills (Skills), Benefits, Pay, Schedule (extended hours/travel). We also have clearance requirement which could be under Requirements or Additional Requirements but we can include under Requirements.
Thus we can have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (Basic Qualifications + Additional Requirements?), Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Good.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown.
We'll produce:
About the role
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline and 1+ years of professional experience in site reliability engineering or DevOps; OR 3+ years of professional experience in site reliability engineering or DevOps in lieu of a degree
- 1+ years of professional experience with 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
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed
- Must be willing to travel domestically and globally in the future when needed
- This position requires successfully obtaining and maintaining a Top Secret Security Clearance as a condition of employment. While the clearance may not be immediately necessary upon hire, we encourage you to initiate the application process promptly upon accepting this offer. Your ability to secure the necessary clearance is essential for fulfilling key responsibilities of the role. Should you be unable to obtain it, SpaceX reserves the right to modify or terminate your employment to align with operational needs.
Skills
- 1+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
- Experience managing Kubernetes clusters, not just using them
- Knowledge of Linux boot process and systems configuration
- Deep understanding of testing, continuous integration, build, deployment & continuous monitoring
- Understanding of relevant build technologies, such as Bazel and Makefiles
- Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques
- Understanding of distributed databases and data modeling
- Experience with automatically managing thousands of servers (eg: Terraform or Ansible)
- Strong networking knowledge of TCP/IP
- Cloud virtualization experience (as the cloud provider)
- Experience using NVIDIA GPU deployment stacks (Blackwell/Rubin)
- Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate with customers, peers, management etc. in both formal and informal situations
- Active Top Secret, Top Secret SCI, or DOE Level Q clearance
Benefits
- 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
- Various other discounts and perks
- Accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation
- Eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year
- Paid sick leave pursuant to Company policy which satisfies or exceeds the accrual, carryover, and use requirements of the law
- Those with an active clearance will receive a 10% differential, up to an additional $20,000 annually, once officially briefed into a classified program
Pay
- Pay Range: Level 1: $125,000.00 - $160,000.00; Level 2: $145,000.00 - $195,000