Sr. IT Windows Engineer

SpaceX•Hawthorne, CA

5d•$155,000 - $215,000

About The Position

SpaceX is seeking an experienced engineer with deep knowledge of Microsoft-based technologies to join its Information Technology Windows Infrastructure team. The role supports systems across SpaceX and works with engineering teams to deliver enterprise software platforms and related technologies in a fast-paced, challenging environment. The engineer will take responsibility for the processes, systems, and tools they create and manage, building resilient, high-performance, scalable, and flexible systems.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a STEM discipline and 5+ years of systems engineering experience, or 7+ years of systems engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
7+ years of hands-on experience with Windows operating system engineering and architecture.
Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Active Directory, Kerberos, and multi-platform authentication and identification environments.
Experience setting up, configuring, upgrading, managing, and troubleshooting Windows-based systems and services, including Active Directory Certificate Services and Active Directory Federation Services in physical and virtual environments.
Experience with cryptography fundamentals, including PKI standards, data encryption, or key management.
Expertise creating repeatable, reliable, scalable systems architectures, including high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and statistics or metrics collection.
Expert-level PowerShell experience, including writing larger scripts and automation-driven processes beyond running cmdlets.
Experience building robust monitoring and automated remediation services for critical systems, such as SCOM, Icinga, or equivalent.
Experience with hybrid Entra ID and Active Directory scenarios.
Experience with configuration management, provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and other DevOps or SRE best practices, concepts, and tools.
Ability to support deployment of HSMs and cryptographic solutions.
Understanding of developing web and C#/.NET applications and build processes.
Networking experience in IPv4, switching, routing, firewalls, and high-availability architecture.
Comfort with mission-critical and sensitive systems and a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities.
Excellent communication skills for interacting with internal and external customers, vendors, and management in formal and informal situations.

Responsibilities

Gather requirements; research, evaluate, design, plan, deploy, and support Microsoft enterprise software platforms and related technologies.
Build highly resilient, high-performance, scalable, and flexible systems.
Recommend, justify, and implement improvements using an accepted change control methodology.
Work with diverse groups and internal business units to design and deliver solutions and resolve problems proactively and in a timely manner.
Drive architecture designs that account for interoperability, scale, efficiency, and business continuity across environments.
Develop security approaches, including PKI standards, access and data protection, key management, hardware security modules, certificate management, and encryption methods.
Develop scripting and automation solutions to address issues at scale.

Benefits

Potential long-term incentives in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards.
Potential discretionary bonuses.
Ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
401(k) retirement plan.
Short- and long-term disability insurance.
Life insurance.
Paid parental leave.
Various discounts and perks.
May accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation.
Eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year.
Paid sick leave pursuant to Company policy.