Enterprise IT Storage Engineer – High-Performance Systems

Starlink; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage infrastructure in its on-prem environment. Focused on high-performance, low-latency storage for mission-critical workloads such as simulation and telemetry, the role covers NetApp, Pure, Vast, and HPE Alletra systems with automation and standardization efforts.

Ideal candidates will have 3+ years of storage engineering experience with enterprise platforms and strong protocol knowledge (NFS, SMB, iSCSI,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE or STEM field with 3+ years storage engineering experience; or 5+ years experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience with enterprise storage platforms: NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, HPE Alletra.
• Strong understanding of storage protocols: NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain storage infrastructure across multiple tiers: high-performance, capacity, archive, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery.
• Architect and operate high-throughput, low-latency storage and support exabyte scale file systems for simulation, telemetry, and high-concurrency workloads.
• Administer storage systems including NetApp, Pure FlashArray/FlashBlade, Vast, and HPE Alletra.
• Monitor and troubleshoot storage performance across the full stack: hardware, transport (RDMA), and protocol layers.
• Troubleshoot complex issues that require understanding interaction of protocols and OSes.
• Manage storage access, data permissions, and access controls across different protocols and OSes.
• Develop automation and tooling for monitoring, capacity utilization and planning, configuration management, and alerting.
• Define and enforce standards for storage deployment, performance tuning, and operational management.
• Collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams to align storage strategies with system architecture and workload requirements.
• Participate in scheduled maintenance, on-call rotation, and occasional physical installation of hardware.

Skills

NetApp

Pure Storage

Vast

HPE Alletra

NFS

CIFS/SMB

iSCSI

NVMe over TCP

Python

PowerShell

Ansible

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE or STEM

Tools

DFS administration

Virtualization

Monitoring tools

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage infrastructure in its on-prem environment. Focused on high-performance, low-latency storage for mission-critical workloads such as simulation and telemetry, the role covers NetApp, Pure, Vast, and HPE Alletra systems with automation and standardization efforts.

Ideal candidates will have 3+ years of storage engineering experience with enterprise platforms and strong protocol knowledge (NFS, SMB, iSCSI,