Site Reliability Engineer
About The Position
The Site Reliability Engineer will support the application software team by ensuring the compute, storage, and networking infrastructure that runs SpaceX manufacturing systems is reliable, stable, and scalable. The team owns infrastructure supporting Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab, and the role has a direct impact on factory uptime, throughput, and production scale. The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals and a passion for infrastructure, understands systems before making changes, solves difficult problems, communicates clearly, and takes ownership of work manufacturing depends on. Aerospace experience is not required. The position is onsite, includes on-call participation, and may require travel to sites for deployments, incidents, and cross-site reliability.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline, or 3+ years of professional SRE or DevOps experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least 1 year of software development experience.
- Experience with Linux operating systems.
- Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
- Must be able to travel to different sites: Hawthorne, California; Redmond, Washington; Cape Canaveral, Florida; and Starbase, Texas.
- Ability to pass an Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral.
- Must meet ITAR eligibility requirements: be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with production compute, storage, and/or networking infrastructure.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar tools.
- Experience with containers and virtualization, such as Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, or KVM.
- Experience with databases and data modeling, such as Postgres or ClickHouse.
- Ability to translate high-level requirements into implementations from first principles.
- Comfort operating mission-critical systems with appropriate urgency and care.
- Skillful communication with customers, peers, and management.
- Comfort operating across multiple sites and manufacturing programs.
Responsibilities
- Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale compute, storage, and networking for manufacturing systems across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab.
- Manage infrastructure as code and use observability to provide a complete picture of platform health.
- Design for reliability, stability, and scale, and find and remove bottlenecks through measurement and engineering.
- Perform proactive maintenance, including capacity planning, lifecycle management, and reducing toil before it becomes an incident.
- Partner with software engineers, manufacturing stakeholders, and site teams to build operable, maintainable systems.
- Improve the full system lifecycle, from design through deployment and operation to continuous refinement.
- Practice sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.
- Provide high-quality support to manufacturing and engineering users.
- Communicate clearly with stakeholders and teammates.
- Participate in on-call and travel to sites as needed for deployments, incidents, and cross-site reliability.
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Job Type
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