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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer, Platform / Infrastructure (Starlink) - **Company:** Space Exploration Technologies Corp. - **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States - **Salary:** $135,000.0 - $155,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Query Performance, Cloud Computing, Databases, Relational Databases, Database Queries, Database Schema, PostgreSQL, Octopus Deploy, Open Source Technology, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Datadog, Delivery Pipeline, Grafana, Indexer, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Deployment Automation, Vertica, Atlassian Bamboo, Jenkins - **Published:** July 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/17635584?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F17635584%2FSoftware-Engineer-Platform-Infrastructure-Starlink-California-Palo-Alto ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a STEM discipline. * 1+ years of professional experience with networking or infrastructure projects. * 1+ years of professional experience programming in Python, Go, or a similar language used in infrastructure and platform work. * Strong attention to detail. PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: * Experience with Kubernetes in multi-region or large-scale environments. * Experience with CI and DevOps pipelines, deployment tools, or related infrastructure projects (e.g., Jenkins, Bamboo, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Helm). * Experience with observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry) and an understanding of what makes an alert accurate and actionable. * Familiarity with relational databases (g., PostgreSQL), including indexing and query performance, especially in distributed or multi-region deployments. * Contributions to open-source projects or development of open-source tools., * To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. * 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. * 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here. ## Description As a Software Engineer on the Core Infrastructure team, you will sit at the intersection of Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Database Reliability. Beyond keeping systems running and responding to tickets, you will take on the role of an architectural investigator. Your mission is to anticipate the next bottleneck before it happens and help build the solution that prevents it. Modern distributed infrastructure generates thousands of signals, alerts, and metrics every minute, and so do stakeholders. We need an engineer who can cut through the noise on both fronts. Technically, you will identify the underlying causal problems behind alerts and implement automated, systemic fixes. Organizationally, you will approach feature tickets and infrastructure requests as investigations to uncover the true underlying need. You will work with stakeholders to find the best solution rather than simply implementing the first one proposed. You will help build the internal developer platform that empowers our product teams to ship code securely and rapidly, while ensuring our persistence layer and infrastructure scale reliably under heavy load. If you treat infrastructure as a software engineering problem and see reducing operational toil as a core engineering goal, this role is for you., * Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks by analyzing system metrics, database queries, and cloud resource usage before they impact users. * Build and maintain the internal developer platform, including the self-service tools and CI/CD pipelines. * Operate and secure the production Kubernetes clusters that run our customer-facing website, managed as code. * Partner with application teams to optimize slow SQL queries and manage database schema changes safely. * Investigate infrastructure requests to understand the real underlying need and propose better long-term solutions. ## Related Videos - [Optimizing Discovery: PostgreSQL's Role in Transforming GetYourGuide's Search](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1647-optimizing-discovery-postgresql-s-role-in-transforming-getyourguide-s-search) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [The Road to MLOps: How Verivox Transitioned to AWS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1050-the-road-to-mlops-how-verivox-transitioned-to-aws) - [Your next 10x engineer isn't in your city. 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