IT Linux Systems Engineer

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.

IT LINUX SYSTEMS ENGINEER

SpaceX is looking for an experienced engineer with deep knowledge and broad experience across Linux-based technologies. This employee will be a member of the Information Technology Linux Infrastructure team. The ideal candidate will be flexible and flourish in a fast paced and challenging environment. He or she should be a self-starter, self-motivator and possess ingenuity to excel at this position.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work closely with other SpaceX engineers to gather requirements, research, evaluate, design, plan, deploy, and support Linux-based/open source software platforms and related technologies in a world-class environment that meets the needs of the demanding SpaceX engineering teams. Build highly-resilient, high-performance, scalable, and flexible systems.
• Exercise a high degree of responsibility for the processes, systems, and tools you create and manage; all supporting the goal of making humanity an interplanetary species.
• Make recommendations, justify, and implement improvements using an accepted change control methodology.
• Work within a diverse group to design and deliver creative solutions and resolve problems in a timely and proactive manner by interacting with internal business units.
• Define, document and follow standards and best practices for systems design, testing, and implementation.
• Drive scripting and automation to develop solutions to common problems.
• Participate in on-call rotation to support critical systems round-the-clock.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, physics, or information systems, and 3+ years of systems engineering experience; OR 5+ years of systems engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience with Linux servers in physical and virtualized environments.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with Linux shell (bash scripting, output parsing, etc.).
• Experience with Python or other scripting and automation languages.
• Expertise in creating repeatable, reliable, scalable systems architectures, with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and statistics/metrics collection.
• Expert working knowledge (including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot) Linux-based and open-source systems and technologies such as Apache, BIND, HAProxy, NGINX, sendmail/postfix, iptables, etc.
• Experience with ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) or other centralized logging solutions.
• Expertise in source code and version control tools such as Git and Subversion.
• Experience with configuration management (Puppet or Ansible), provisioning, infrastructure as code, and other DevOps concepts and tools (Vagrant, Docker, Kubernetes, etc).
• Understanding of developing web and C/C++ applications and build processes.
• Networking experience in IPv4, switching, routing, firewalls and HA architecture.
• Comfortable working with mission critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities.
• Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate with internal/external customers, vendors, management etc. in both formal and informal situations.

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 (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 .