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SR. SERVER HARDWARE SYSTEMS ENGINEER (STARLINK)

Starlink delivers high-speed, low-latency internet to millions of people around the world, and the network depends on a global fleet of servers running in data centers and points of presence (PoPs). The Starlink Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is hiring a Server Hardware Systems Engineer to own the health of this fleet as it scales rapidly. You will own the server hardware lifecycle from issue detection, to repair, through recovery. You will build the telemetry, alerting, and automation that let a small team operate a very large fleet, and coordinate with network operations, field technicians, hardware vendors, and data center partners to get failed hardware repaired and back into service quickly. You will also use fleet reliability data to shape server design, selection, and qualification for new sites across both commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) and custom-designed server platforms. The right engineer for this job is one who is automation-first. Our goal is to scale operations for server hardware through excellent tooling, and automated process. While this role is primarily located in our offices (not in data center facilities), you are welcome and encouraged to spend time in the field with Starlink data center engineering teams

RESPONSIBILITES

Own the end-to-end hardware repair lifecycle for the Starlink server fleet and its components (CPUs, memory, SSDs, NICs, optics, and power supplies): triage alerts, isolate failures to the component level, and drive safe removal from production, repair, validation, and return to service
Manage vendor support cases and coordinate on-site work with data center remote hands and field technicians, including parts delivery, site access, and return of failed parts for warranty replacement or failure analysis
Build the software and automation behind that path: hardware telemetry and alerting (BMC and Redfish exporters, node-level metrics, log collection), removal of manual steps from diagnostics, production drain and return, alert silencing, and post-repair validation, and component-level tracking from detection to recovery
Define, measure, and report fleet hardware metrics, including Mean Time to Respond, Repair, and Recover (p50 and p90), backlog trends, and component failure rates, and publish regular status updates to stakeholders.
Write runbooks, methods of procedure (MOPs), and training material so NOC and field technicians can resolve common hardware incidents
Validate new server hardware before it enters production, including burn-in, firmware, and configuration checks, and use fleet failure trends to drive server design, selection, qualification, and corrective action with vendors and hardware engineering

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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 systems administration, site reliability engineering, or DevOps in lieu of a degree
3+ years of professional experience troubleshooting and repairing enterprise server hardware in a production environment
3+ years of professional experience administering Linux systems

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

3+ years of experience operating a large server fleet in production data center environments
Hands-on experience diagnosing and replacing server components such as CPUs, DIMMs, NVMe SSDs, NICs, transceivers, power supplies, and system boards
Experience with out-of-band management and baseboard management controllers (e.g., HPE iLO, Dell iDRAC, OpenBMC) using Redfish and IPMI
Proficiency with Linux hardware diagnostics, such as kernel and machine check logs, EDAC, ipmitool, smartctl, nvme-cli, ethtool, etc