IT Storage Engineer

SpaceX•Memphis, TN

About The Position

SpaceX is seeking an experienced storage engineer with deep expertise in enterprise storage platforms. The role supports performance-critical, mission-critical workloads such as simulation, telemetry, and test data processing. It involves working with Pure and NetApp storage systems running iSCSI, both hands-on at a keyboard and with physical hardware in an on-premises environment.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or another STEM discipline and at least 3 years of professional IT storage engineering experience; alternatively, at least 5 years of IT storage engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
Experience with enterprise storage platforms: NetApp, Pure Storage, VAST, and HPE Alletra.
Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
Meet the stated ITAR eligibility requirements: be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Nice To Haves

Experience with client and server hardware and software, monitoring tools, enterprise networking, and virtualization.
Mid-level experience with DFS administration.
High level of network knowledge.
Experience automating infrastructure with Python, PowerShell, or Ansible.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex designs clearly.
Experience collaborating with virtualization teams as an infrastructure engineer.
Strong understanding of NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP storage protocols.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain storage infrastructure across high-performance, capacity, archive, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery tiers.
Architect and operate high-throughput, low-latency storage and support exabyte-scale file systems, such as VAST, for simulation, telemetry, and high-concurrency workloads.
Administer NetApp, Pure FlashArray/FlashBlade, VAST, and HPE Alletra storage systems.
Monitor and troubleshoot storage performance across hardware, transport (RDMA), and protocol layers.
Troubleshoot complex issues involving interactions among protocols and operating systems.
Manage storage access, data permissions, and access controls across protocols and operating systems.
Develop automation and tooling for monitoring, capacity utilization and planning, configuration management, and alerting.
Define and enforce standards for storage deployment, performance tuning, and operational management.
Collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams to align storage strategies with system architecture and workload requirements.
Participate in scheduled maintenance, an on-call rotation, and occasional physical installation of hardware.