Senior Site Reliability Engineer
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory • Menlo Park, CA • Posted July 11, 2026
About the Role
**Job Description**
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 alerts include potentially hazardous asteroids, supernovae, and entirely new classes of transient phenomena. Your work will directly **enable astrophysical disc...
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 alerts include potentially hazardous asteroids, supernovae, and entirely new classes of transient phenomena. Your work will directly **enable astrophysical disc...