Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure

SpaceX•Bastrop, TX

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure will help operate and scale the compute, storage, and networking infrastructure that supports SpaceX manufacturing systems across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab. The role directly affects factory uptime, throughput, and production scale. The position is intended for an engineer with strong software engineering fundamentals and a focus on infrastructure reliability, stability, proactive maintenance, and scalability. The role is onsite, with travel to sites as needed.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline, or 7+ years of professional SRE or DevOps experience in lieu of a degree.
3+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks.
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, CA; Redmond, WA; Cape Canaveral, FL; and Starbase, TX.
Ability to pass an Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral.
Must meet U.S. Government export-control eligibility requirements: be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

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; identify 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 lifecycle from design through deployment, operation, and 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.