Exabyte-Scale IT Storage Engineer

Starlink; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain multi-tier storage infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads such as simulation and telemetry. You will work with NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, and HPE Alletra in on-prem environments, develop automation, and collaborate with compute and network teams to ensure high performance and reliability.

The role requires hands-on expertise with NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP, plus experience automating infrastructure

Qualifications

• 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.
• Experience automating infrastructure with Python, PowerShell, or Ansible.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience collaborating with virtualization teams as an infrastructure engineer.
• Experience with client/server hardware/software, monitoring tools, enterprise Networking, and virtualization.

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 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 hardware, transport (RDMA), and protocol layers.
• Troubleshoot complex issues requiring understanding of protocol and OS interactions.
• Manage storage access, data permissions, and access controls across 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 workload requirements.
• Participate in scheduled maintenance, on-call rotation, and occasional physical installation of hardware.

Skills

Python automation

PowerShell

Ansible

Communication skills

Network knowledge

Virtualization collaboration

DFS administration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or STEM

5+ years IT storage experience in lieu of a degree

Tools

NetApp

Pure Storage

Vast

HPE Alletra

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain multi-tier storage infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads such as simulation and telemetry. You will work with NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, and HPE Alletra in on-prem environments, develop automation, and collaborate with compute and network teams to ensure high performance and reliability.

The role requires hands-on expertise with NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP, plus experience automating infrastructure