GNC DevOps Engineer Falcon

GNC DEVOPS ENGINEER (FALCON)

SpaceX is looking for a GNC DevOps Engineer to operate and scale custombuilt missioncritical products for Guidance Navigational and Control (GNC). The GNC team performs trajectory design and vehicle simulation and participates in recurring missioncritical launch operations. This position will work with the GNC team to maintain and improve a set of GNCfocused tools. Examples of these products include Monte Carlo simulations on a highperformance 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 fastpaced and challenging environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Deploy upgrade operate/maintain and scale a suite of missioncritical 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 enduser 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:

• Bachelors 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 SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• 2 years of systems administration site reliability engineering or DevOps experience
• 2 years of experience with Python and Pythonbased development frameworks
• 2 years of Linux experience
• Expertise with DockerVagrant 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 frontend 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 highperformance computing systems or largescale data analysis systems
• Must be comfortable working with missioncritical and sensitive systems with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

Pay Range:

GNC DevOps Engineer/Level I: $120000.00 $145000.00/per year
GNC DevOps Engineer/Level II: $140000.00 $170000.00/per year

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a casebycase basis and may vary based on the following considerations: jobrelated 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 longterm incentives in the form of company stock stock options or longterm 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 & longterm disability insurance life insurance paid parental leave and various other discounts and perks. You may also accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation & will be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year. Exempt employees are eligible for 5 days of sick leave per year.