Security Engineer (Infrastructure)

SpaceX•Bastrop, TX

7d•Onsite

About The Position

SpaceX is seeking a Security Engineer to join Information Security and help protect systems and processes across the enterprise. The role focuses on designing, building, operating, and securing on-premises Kubernetes platforms that run security services. It includes operating the underlying compute, storage, and networking; automating platform operations; maintaining reliability and observability; responding to incidents; and working with security, IT, software, and other teams to identify and reduce risk. The position is onsite, and the employee must be willing to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science or another STEM discipline, or at least 2 years of professional experience operating production infrastructure and a high school diploma or equivalency certificate in lieu of a degree.
Experience operating on-premises Kubernetes in a production environment.
Experience with Linux system administration and Python, Go, or another language used to automate infrastructure.
Must be willing to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed.
Must work onsite; hybrid or remote work will not be considered.
Must meet the stated U.S. Government export authorization 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

Production Kubernetes operations, including control plane, workloads, networking, storage, RBAC, and upgrades.
On-premises compute, storage, and networking for container platforms.
Cluster and node hardening, admission control, and secure workload configuration.
Infrastructure as code and configuration management.
Linux troubleshooting.
Observability using metrics, logs, and alerting.
CI/CD or GitOps-style delivery onto Kubernetes.
Backup, restore, and recovery for on-premises platforms.
TCP/IP knowledge sufficient to build and debug cluster networking.
Root-cause debugging under time pressure.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate on-premises Kubernetes clusters that run security services.
Automate cluster build-out, configuration, upgrades, and day-to-day operations.
Run the compute, storage, and networking that the clusters depend on.
Maintain platform service reliability, including scheduling, ingress, load balancing, and storage.
Harden clusters and workloads, including RBAC, policy, secrets, and secure configuration.
Respond to production incidents and drive them to resolution.
Instrument clusters and workloads so failures are visible before they become outages.
Document and maintain operated systems, and advise other teams on them.
Partner with security and IT to identify threats and gaps, then deliver platform and deployment changes that reduce risk.
Deliver scalable, repeatable, maintainable, and secure solutions.
Coordinate with information security, IT, software, and other partners.