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

- **Company:** Space Exploration Technologies Corporation
- **Location:** Hawthorne, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $225,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Data Analysis, C Sharp (Programming Language), Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Data Centers, Linux, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Hadoop Distributed File System, Apache HBase, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Scala (Programming Language), Software Construction, Software Engineering, Data Processing, Istio, Apache Spark, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Apache Flink, Bare Metal, Apache Kafka, Software Version Control, Golang
- **Published:** July 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9065375/sr-site-reliability-engineer-top-secret-clearance-starlink

## About the Role

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline and 5 years of software development experience; OR 7+ years of professional experience building software with site reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree
Experience with Linux operating systems

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

5+ years of rigorous experience with site reliability or DevOps
Experience with Kubernetes and Istio for on-premise deployment
Experience with in-stream, data processing and analytics using open source platforms such as Apache Kafka, Spark, HBase, HDFS, Flink
Experience troubleshooting hardware and network-layer issues
Programming experience in Python, C#, Java, Scala, Go or similar languages
Good understanding of version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment and monitoring

## Description

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


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