Enterprise Storage Engineer — High-Performance Compute

Starlink; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) retirement plan

Comprehensive health coverage

Paid parental leave

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads such as simulation and telemetry. The role focuses on Pure, NetApp, and Vast storage systems in an on-premises environment, with hands-on responsibilities.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of storage engineering experience (or 5+ years without a degree) and strong knowledge of NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other STEM discipline and 3+ years of professional IT storage engineering experience; OR 5+ years of IT storage engineering 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 (e.g., VAST,) 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 an understanding of the interaction of various protocols and operating systems.
• Manage storage access, data permissions and access controls across different protocols and operating systems.
• 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

Storage engineering

iSCSI

NetApp

Pure Storage

HPE Alletra

Performance tuning

Automation (Python/PowerShell/Ansible)

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

NetApp

Pure FlashArray/FlashBlade

Vast

HPE Alletra

RDMA

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads such as simulation and telemetry. The role focuses on Pure, NetApp, and Vast storage systems in an on-premises environment, with hands-on responsibilities.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of storage engineering experience (or 5+ years without a degree) and strong knowledge of NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP.