IT Storage Engineer

SpaceX•Memphis, TN

About The Position

SpaceX is seeking an experienced storage engineer with deep expertise in enterprise storage platforms. This role supports mission-critical workloads, including simulation, telemetry, and test data processing, in performance-critical settings. The engineer will build and operate on-premises storage infrastructure, with hands-on experience in Pure and NetApp systems running iSCSI, and will work across storage hardware, transport, protocols, and operating systems.

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.
Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
Must meet SpaceX's stated ITAR eligibility requirements: be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee or asylee, or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Nice To Haves

Experience with client and server hardware/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 storage protocols: NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain storage infrastructure across high-performance, capacity, archive, backup/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 storage systems including NetApp, Pure FlashArray/FlashBlade, VAST, and HPE Alletra.
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 different 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 and an on-call rotation, and occasionally install hardware physically.