High-Performance IT Storage Engineer (On-Prem)

SpaceX; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an experienced storage engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage infrastructure supporting simulation, telemetry, and test data processing on premises.

The ideal candidate will work with NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, and HPE Alletra, manage high-throughput storage, ensure disaster recovery readiness, and collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams. On-call rotation and occasional hardware installation are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related STEM field.
• 3+ years of 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 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, and protocol layers.
• Troubleshoot complex issues that require understanding 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 architecture

Automation scripting

Communication skills

Team collaboration

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related STEM field

Tools

NetApp

Pure Storage

Vast

HPE Alletra

NFS

SMB/CIFS

iSCSI

NVMe over TCP

Python

PowerShell

Ansible

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an experienced storage engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage infrastructure supporting simulation, telemetry, and test data processing on premises.

The ideal candidate will work with NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, and HPE Alletra, manage high-throughput storage, ensure disaster recovery readiness, and collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams. On-call rotation and occasional hardware installation are required.