Site Reliability Engineer, Kubernetes Platform (Top Secret Clearance) Verified today
Site Reliability Engineer, Kubernetes Platform (Top Secret Clearance)
As a member of the Classified IT Systems Engineering team, you will design scalable systems to support growing volumes of data products. You will build tools that enable efficient work and help create secure, reliable, and autonomous software systems. You will be responsible for the full lifecycle of the systems you create, including development, testing, and operational support.
Responsibilities
- Develop automation to deploy and manage compute resources both on-premises and in the cloud
- Build, maintain, and scale on-premises hardware systems designed to host GPU-accelerated machine learning workloads
- Deploy and manage core infrastructure such as databases, monitoring and storage
- Closely collaborate with software engineers to create highly scalable, operable and maintainable products
- Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services, from inception and design through deployment, operation and refinement
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience in software, DevOps, or site reliability engineering in lieu of a degree
- 1+ year of experience with Kubernetes
- 1+ year of experience with Linux operating systems
- Experience in Bash, Python, and/or other scripting languages
- Experience building, maintaining, and scaling on-premises and/or cloud systems
- Active Top Secret, Top Secret SCI, or DOE Level Q clearance
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience hosting and pushing the state of the art in inferential model benchmarks
- Experience with systems administration, site reliability engineering, or DevOps engineering
- Experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
- Experience with virtualization and hypervisor technologies
- Experience with automatically managing dozens or hundreds of servers
- Knowledge of performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques
- Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate with customers, peers, management and others in both formal and informal situations
- Ability to quickly learn new tools and frameworks
Additional Requirements
- An active clearance may provide the opportunity for you to work on sensitive SpaceX missions; if so, you will be subject to pre-employment drug and random drug and alcohol testing
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed
Compensation and Benefits
Pay Range: Level 3: $145,000 to $195,000 annually. Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.
Base salary is one part of your total rewards package. You may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Benefits include comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, and various other discounts and perks. You will accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year. Paid sick leave accrual complies with applicable law.
Those with an active clearance will receive a 10% differential, up to an additional $20,000 annually, once officially briefed into a classified program.
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (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.