The opportunity
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.
What you'll do
Participate in the team's on-call rotation; practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
Manage node lifecycle with infrastructure as code: OS images, firmware, configuration management, kernel and driver stack
Build observability for both HPC administrators and end users: cluster, node, and storage health for operators, and job/workflow-level signal for the people running work on the platform
Reduce toil with automation; split time between operating production systems: and writing the software that makes that work smaller
Sustainably manage resources, including compute and storage
Lead capacity planning with users across the company: understand what they will need next, and turn that into a concrete picture of tomorrow's compute and storage
What they're looking for
- Collaborate with HPC systems engineers and with engineers across all: disciplines across the company on operable, maintainable infrastructure
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific: discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience operating production infrastructure in lieu of a degree
- + years of experience with Linux operating systems in production
- + years of experience operating production infrastructure (servers, services,: or networks), including monitoring, debugging, and repairing what you own
