Senior Site Reliability Engineer

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory • Menlo Park, CA, United States • Posted June 17, 2026

Location Menlo Park, CA
Job Type Full-time
Category other-general
Posted June 17, 2026
Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job ID

6630

Location

SLAC - Menlo Park, CA

Full-Time

Regular

**SLAC Job Postings**

Join the Data Management (DM) team at the **Vera C. Rubin Observatory** , one of modern astronomy's defining missions. The Rubin Observatory is a new astronomy facility in Chile designed to create a 10-year time-lapse map of the southern sky through the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).

As part of this team, you'll design, operate, and sustain the systems that process Rubin's data in near real time. LSST will generate 15 TB of raw pixels per night with its 8-meter mirror and 3.2 gigapixel camera, creating one of the most demanding **petascale data challenges** in science.

The Data Management System's Prompt Processing Framework identifies and distributes Alerts for every astrophysical object that moves, changes, or appears in the sky within minutes of observation. These aler...

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