Senior Hardware/Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink)

TL;DR

Senior Hardware/Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineer (Starlink): Building and optimizing high-load backend services for a distributed data platform with an accent on API design, database performance, and scalability. Focus on microservices architecture, solving complex concurrency challenges, and ensuring system reliability under heavy traffic.

Location: Redmond, WA. Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident (green card holder), Refugee, or Asylee due to ITAR requirements.

Salary: $160,000 – $220,000 per year

Company

hirify.global leverages rocket and spacecraft experience to deploy Starlink, the world’s most advanced broadband internet system, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

What you will do

• Develop automation to deploy and manage on-premise compute resources.
• Deploy and manage core infrastructure such as databases, monitoring, and distributed storage.
• Collaborate with software engineers to create highly scalable, operable, and maintainable products.
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of hardware, from inception and design through deployment, operation, scaling, and retirement.
• Invent tools and processes that enable fast, accurate, and easy-to-use development and deployment systems.
• Perform hands-on integration and troubleshooting across the entire Starlink stack.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline and 5+ years of professional experience in systems administration, site reliability engineering, or DevOps; OR 7+ years of professional experience in these fields in lieu of a degree.
• 2+ years of professional experience with Linux operating systems.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other infrastructure tools.
• Experience with containerization technologies (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience in Bash, Python, and/or other scripting languages.
• Development experience in Python, Go, C++, or C.
• Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
• Must conform to U.S. Government export regulations (U.S. citizen/national, permanent resident, Refugee, or Asylee).

Nice to have

• 3+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks.
• Strong understanding of operating systems, virtualization, and hypervisor technologies.
• Knowledge of Linux boot process and systems configuration.
• Deep understanding of testing, continuous integration, build, deployment, and monitoring.
• Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques.
• Experience with automatically managing dozens, hundreds, or thousands of servers.
• Strong networking knowledge of TCP/IP.

Culture & Benefits

• Access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, and life insurance.
• Paid parental leave and various other discounts and perks.
• 3 weeks of paid vacation, 10 or more paid holidays per year, and 5 days of sick leave per year for exempt employees.
• Eligibility for long-term incentives (company stock, stock options, long-term cash awards) and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Company shuttles offered for round trip travel from select Seattle locations to the Redmond office.