Site Reliability Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a STEM discipline and at least 1 year of systems engineering experience, or at least 3 years of systems engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience deploying and supporting Linux servers in physical and virtualized environments, such as VMware via automation.
• Experience with the Linux shell and configuring and extending Linux instances, such as kernel modules, cgroups, PKI, iptables, and interfaces.
• 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, a U.S. lawful permanent resident, a refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, an asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience creating repeatable, reliable, scalable systems architectures with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and statistics or metrics collection.
• Experience operating production virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere/vCenter (clustering, HA, DRS, vMotion, and datastore design), Hyper-V, or KVM.
• Experience architecting and operating enterprise storage, including NFS, SMB/CIFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NVMe-oF, NetApp, Pure Storage, and object storage.
• Expertise generating server and host design specifications—including CPU, memory, NIC, HBA, and local versus shared storage—to meet performance, availability, and density requirements.
• Experience with array- and hypervisor-based snapshots, replication, and backup integration for virtual machine and storage recovery.
• Ability to diagnose compute and storage performance issues, including IOPS, latency, queue depth, CPU ready/co-stop, datastore contention, and fabric/pathing.
• Experience implementing configuration management, provisioning, and workflow automation through infrastructure as code and CI/CD, such as Ansible, AWX/Tower, Puppet, cloud-init, and Jenkins.
• Experience with programming and scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, or Golang to automate tasks and integrate with external systems through RESTful APIs.
• Experience implementing proactive alerting and monitoring workflows and dashboards for Linux systems and virtualization platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB, or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting and scaling containerized applications in Linux environments.
• Experience using automation frameworks such as Ansible or Terraform to manage infrastructure provisioning and post-provisioning lifecycles, including Kubernetes installations.

Responsibilities

• Design, install, operate, scale, and optimize enterprise compute, virtualization, and storage platforms, including hypervisor clusters, purpose-built servers, and high-performance NAS, SAN, and object storage.
• Work with SpaceX engineers to gather requirements and design, deploy, and support resilient, high-performance systems for engineering, production, and mission workloads.
• Perform capacity planning and performance engineering, and implement high availability, backup, replication, and disaster recovery for virtual machines, datastores, and storage arrays.
• Install, configure, patch, and decommission servers, hypervisor hosts, and storage systems, and contribute to hardware and platform standards.
• Automate provisioning, patching, and day-to-day operations with scripting, templates, and infrastructure as code to reduce toil.
• Document standards and best practices, and partner with network, facilities, security, and application teams on connectivity, power and cooling, access, and workload placement.