Sr. IT Linux Systems Engineer

March 26

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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft

Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy Rockets • Dragon Cargo and Crew Spacecraft • Merlin Rocket Engines • Draco and SuperDraco Thrusters • PICA-X high performance heat shield material

1001 - 5000

Description

• Work closely with other SpaceX engineers to gather requirements, research, evaluate, design, plan, deploy, and support Linux-based/open source software platforms and related technologies • Exercise a high degree of responsibility for the processes, systems, and tools supporting the goal of making humanity an interplanetary species • Make recommendations, justify, and implement improvements using an accepted change control methodology • Work within a diverse group to design and deliver creative solutions and resolve problems in a timely and proactive manner by interacting with internal business units • Define, document and follow standards and best practices for systems design, testing, and implementation • Drive scripting and automation to develop solutions to common problems • Install, run, and monitor Kubernetes in production environments • Participate in on-call rotation to handle urgent after-hours work when necessary

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, physics, information systems, or similar technical discipline and 5+ years of systems engineering experience, OR 8+ years of systems engineering experience in lieu of a degree • Experience with Linux servers in physical and virtualized environments • Experience with Linux shell (i.e. bash scripting, output parsing) • Experience with Python or other scripting and automation languages • Experience with object-based storage (i.e. Scality, Ceph, Swift) • Expertise in creating repeatable, reliable, scalable systems architectures with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and statistics/metrics collection • Expert working knowledge of Linux-based and open-source systems and technologies such as Apache, BIND, HAProxy, NGINX, sendmail/postfix, iptables, etc. • Experience with ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) or other centralized logging solutions • Expertise in source code and version control tools such as Git and Subversion • Experience with configuration management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible), provisioning, infrastructure as code, and other DevOps concepts and tools (i.e. Vagrant, Docker, Kubernetes) • Understanding of developing web and C/C++ applications and build processes • Networking experience in IPv4, switching, routing, firewalls, and HA architecture • Comfortable working with mission critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities • Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate with internal/external customers, vendors, management etc. in both formal and informal situations • Experience with hardware (i.e. racking, troubleshooting, swapping components) • Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed

Benefits

• Company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards • Potential discretionary bonuses • Ability to purchase additional stock at a discount • 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 • 3 weeks of paid vacation • 10 or more paid holidays per year • 5 days of sick leave per year for Exempt employees