Kubernetes Platform Infrastructure Engineer (Starlink)

TL;DR

Kubernetes Platform Infrastructure Engineer (Starlink): Design, operate, and scale the infrastructure to run the world’s largest satellite constellation and manage a network that handles millions of daily users worldwide with an accent on Site Reliability Engineering, Developer Operations, and internal Kubernetes platforms. Focus on developing automation to deploy and manage on-premise compute resources, creating highly scalable and maintainable software products, and collaborating with engineering across the board.

Location: Must be U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Salary: $122,500.00 - $170,000.00/per year

Company

hirify.global is actively developing the technologies to make human life on Mars possible and deploying Starlink, the world’s most advanced broadband internet system.

What you will do

• Develop automation to deploy and manage on-premise Kubernetes clusters.
• Deploy and manage core infrastructure such as databases, monitoring and distributed storage.
• Collaborate with software engineers to create highly scalable, operable, and maintainable products.
• Improve the whole lifecycle of services -- from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.
• Monitor and alert supporting systems to have high availability.
• Identify areas for improvement and create innovative solutions that enable high system availability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline and 1+ years of professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps; OR 3+ years of professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps in lieu of a degree.
• 1+ years of professional experience with Linux operating systems.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other infrastructure tools.
• Experience with containerization technologies (i.e. OCI containers, Kubernetes).
• Experience scripting in Bash, Python, or other similar languages.
• Development experience in Python, C++, or Go.

Nice to have

• 1+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks.
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters, not just using them.
• Knowledge of Linux boot process and systems configuration.
• Deep understanding of testing, continuous integration, build, deployment & continuous monitoring.
• Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques.

Culture & Benefits

• Eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards, as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k)-retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, and various other discounts and perks.
• Accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and will be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year.
• Exempt employees are eligible for 5 days of sick leave per year.
• Company shuttles are offered to employees for round trip travel from select Seattle locations to the hirify.global Redmond office Monday to Friday.