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What this posting asks for

Level: Mid level — The posting asks for 2+ years of experience.

Main responsibilities

• 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…
• 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 st…
• 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 infrastruct…
• 2+ years of experience with Linux operating systems in production
• 2+ years of experience operating production infrastructure (servers, services, or networks), including monitoring, debugging, and repairing what you own

Competencies an interviewer will look for

• Technical skill Core
  In the posting: “This role exists to put a real Site Reliability Engineer operating model on these capabilities and accelerating the world class engineering at SpaceX: toil r…” · “We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who wants to own everything from Linux machines and our Infrastructure as Code, storage, and user facing appli…” · “You do need production instincts — you have operated real infrastructure, you write code to delete toil, and you care about whether users can actually get wo…”
  Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off.
• Planning and organisation Core
  In the posting: “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 st…” · “Familiarity with HPC clusters, schedulers (Slurm, PBS, LSF), or GPU compute — not required;” · “You may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards, as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the …”
  Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how.
• Stakeholder management Core
  In the posting: “Ability to communicate clearly with users, peers, and vendors in both incident and design settings” · “employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, ge…”
  Show it by: Shows how they aligned people with different goals; Explains how they handled a 'no' from someone senior.
• Communication Supporting
  In the posting: “Ability to communicate clearly with users, peers, and vendors in both incident and design settings”
  Show it by: Adapts the message to the listener; Gives an example of explaining something clearly in writing or speech.
• Teamwork and collaboration Supporting
  In the posting: “Collaborate with HPC systems engineers and with engineers across all disciplines across the company on operable, maintainable infrastructure”
  Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled.
• Ownership and accountability Supporting
  In the posting: “We value engineers who treat teammates with fairness and respect, who are self-critical, and who will take ownership of hard production problems.”
  Show it by: Takes a task from start to finish without being chased; Owns a mistake and what was changed after it.
• Customer focus Supporting
  In the posting: “Build observability for both HPC administrators and end users — cluster, node, and storage health for operators, and job/workflow-level signal for the people…”
  Show it by: Puts the customer's need in their own words; Shows a result for the customer, not only for the company.
• Attention to detail and quality Supporting
  In the posting: “Good understanding of version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment and monitoring”
  Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used.

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