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.
SPLUNK ENGINEER
SpaceX is hiring a Splunk Engineer to help protect and drive the SpaceX mission. Our engineers are responsible for deploying, administrating and supporting a distributed Splunk environment at an enterprise scale. As a highly visible and dynamic organization, we must value and guard against damage to our internal information, our physical hardware, and our reputation and brand. It is paramount that we defend against loss of control or confidence in our systems, to guarantee the highest probability of success.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Deploy, Admin and Support distributed Splunk environment at an enterprise scale.
- Standardize Splunk agent and enterprise deployment, configuration and management with automation.
- Help monitor and maintain the logging platform's performance, availability, and capacity.
- Write Complex SPLs to help Infosec and other IT organizations with their dashboards and alerts..
- Troubleshoot Splunk Instances and Splunk Universal Forwarder problems.
- Data onboarding, governance, enrichment and fields extraction for various use cases.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- 2+ years of experience administering or implementing Splunk in a professional setting.
- Experience writing complex regex for field mappings and identifying patterns.
- Experience with Puppet, Ansible, or other automation frameworks.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Certifications such as Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, Splunk Enterprise Security Admin and Splunk Core Consultant.
- Familiarity with integrating enterprise applications and on-boarding new log sources.
- Familiarity with aerospace, satellite communications, launch vehicle, or factory-floor logging environments.
- Knowledge in the Common Information Model (CIM) with a strong understanding between the CIM and knowledge objects.
- Experience maintaining on-premises deployments of Splunk Core and Splunk Enterprise Security by supporting hundreds of users.
- Experience in identifying visibility gaps for SOC detections and onboarding custom data sources into Splunk.
- Experience with System Administration, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.
- Experience developing or extending Splunk with Python (custom commands, modular inputs, alert actions, or apps) beyond basic SPL.
- Knowledge of Splunk SOAR (or equivalent security orchestration) and integrating Splunk with EDR, threat intel, or other security tools.
- Experience applying Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK) or similar for anomaly detection in operational or security data.
- Hands-on experience with Git, CI/CD, or infrastructure-as-code practices specifically for Splunk configurations and knowledge objects.
- Advanced Linux systems knowledge for large-scale Splunk clusters.
- Experience supporting mission-critical, 24/7 operational environments with strict uptime and rapid incident response requirements.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
- This role requires you to be onsite. Hybrid or remote work will not be considered.
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.
SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; 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, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should reach out to [email protected].
Skills Required
- 2+ years of professional experience administering or implementing Splunk
- Experience writing complex regex for field mappings and pattern identification
- Experience with Puppet, Ansible, or another automation framework
- Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, Splunk Enterprise Security Admin, or Splunk Core Consultant certification
- Experience integrating enterprise applications and onboarding log sources
- Knowledge of the Common Information Model and related knowledge objects
- Experience maintaining on-premises Splunk Core and Splunk Enterprise Security deployments
- Experience identifying SOC visibility gaps and onboarding custom data sources
- Experience with system administration, DevOps, or site reliability engineering
- Experience developing or extending Splunk with Python
- Knowledge of Splunk SOAR or equivalent security orchestration
- Experience with Git, CI/CD, or infrastructure-as-code practices for Splunk
- Advanced Linux systems knowledge for large-scale Splunk clusters
- Experience supporting mission-critical 24/7 operational environments
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed
- Must be willing to work onsite; hybrid or remote work is not available
- Must satisfy applicable ITAR authorization requirements
SpaceX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SpaceX and has not been reviewed or approved by SpaceX.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants are a core part of total compensation, with periodic company-run tender offers that create liquidity before any public listing. These mechanisms can make the equity component feel materially valuable in practice.
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Healthcare Strength — The package includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with on-site clinics and health resources at major sites. This breadth of coverage is presented as a strong element of the offering.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Major locations feature on-site amenities such as fitness facilities, food/coffee, clinics, and other conveniences. These lifestyle perks enhance day-to-day value alongside cash and equity.
SpaceX Insights
What We Do
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA.
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