Sr. Hardware / Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink)

Responsibilities

• Develop automation to deploy and manage on-premise compute resources
• Deploy and manage core infrastructure such as databases, monitoring and distributed storage
• Closely collaborate with software engineers to create highly scalable, operable and maintainable products
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of hardware -- from inception and design, through deployment, operation, scaling and retirement
• Invent tools and processes that enable fast, accurate, and easy-to-use development and deployment systems
• Hands-on integration and troubleshooting across the entire Starlink stack
• Create and manage core infrastructure such as databases and software libraries
• Identify areas for improvement and create innovative solutions that enable high developer velocity

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline and 5+ years of professional experience in systems administration, site reliability engineering, or DevOps; OR 7+ years of professional experience in systems administration, site reliability engineering, or DevOps in lieu of a degree
• 2+ years of professional experience with Linux operating systems
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other infrastructure tools
• Experience with containerization technologies (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience in Bash, Python, and/or other scripting languages
• Development experience in Python, Go, C++, or C

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 3+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
• Strong understanding of operating systems, virtualization, and hypervisor technologies
• Knowledge of Linux boot process and systems configuration
• Deep understanding of testing, continuous integration, build, deployment & monitoring
• Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques
• Experience with automatically managing dozens, hundreds, or thousands of servers
• Strong networking knowledge of TCP/IP
• Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate with customers, peers, management etc. in both formal and informal situations