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Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink)

Hawthorne, CA💼 Full-time💰 $165,000–$165,000🗓 2026-07-28 → 2026-09-26

Core

Upgrade distributed systems to be sharded and geo-redundant, manage petabyte-scale bare metal clusters, and advance deployment/monitoring infrastructure for Starlink's global satellite internet.

Role type

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Infrastructure & Distributed Systems)

Builds

Starlink satellite internet system (hardware, receivers, and software)

Domain

Aerospace / Satellite Communications / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Linux, Kubernetes, Istio, Python, C#, Java, Scala, Go, version control, CI/CD, monitoring, performance optimization, data processing (Kafka, Spark, HBase, HDFS, Flink), hardware troubleshooting

Preferred skills

5+ years SRE/DevOps experience, on-premise Kubernetes/Istio deployment, in-stream data processing, network-layer troubleshooting

Technologies

Kubernetes, Istio, Apache Kafka, Spark, HBase, HDFS, Flink, Linux

Responsibilities

Upgrade distributed systems to be sharded and geo-redundant across multiple data centers; Manage petabyte-scale bare metal compute clusters; Focus on performance bottlenecks and improvement techniques; Collaborate with engineers to create scalable and maintainable products; Engage throughout the software development lifecycle from inception to iterative refinement

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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