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Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Top Secret Clearance (Starlink)

Hawthorne, CA💼 Full-time💰 $165,000–$165,000🗓 2026-08-12 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, test, and operate distributed systems and infrastructure for Starlink, the world's largest satellite constellation, to provide global broadband internet.

Role type

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Infrastructure & Distributed Systems)

Builds

Sharded, geo-redundant distributed systems; multi-region deployment and monitoring infrastructure; petabyte-scale bare metal compute clusters.

Domain

Aerospace / Satellite Communications / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Linux, distributed systems, sharding, geo-redundancy, multi-region architecture, petabyte-scale compute management, software development lifecycle, performance optimization, version control, continuous integration, testing, hardware troubleshooting, network-layer troubleshooting, Python, C#, Java, Scala, Go

Preferred skills

Kubernetes, Istio, in-stream data processing, Apache Kafka, Spark, HBase, HDFS, Flink

Responsibilities

Upgrade existing distributed systems to become sharded and geo-redundant in multiple data centers; Advance existing deployment, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure to support a multi-region environment; Manage petabyte scale bare metal compute clusters; Closely collaborate with engineers across all programs to create highly operable, scalable, and maintainable products; Engage throughout the whole software development lifecycle of services -- from inception to design, deployment, operation, and iterative refinement; Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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