IT Storage Engineer: High-Performance, Exabyte-Scale On-Prem

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Shuttle service to Redmond office

Job summary

SpaceX in Redmond, WA, is seeking an IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage infrastructure for mission‑critical workloads. The role emphasizes hands‑on work with NetApp, Pure, Vast, and HPE Alletra in an on‑premises environment to support simulations and telemetry.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years storage engineering experience with major platforms and strong knowledge of NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP, plus automation skills in Python/PowerShell/Ansible.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, CE, or STEM with 3+ years storage experience; or 5+ years storage experience without a degree.
• Experience with NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, HPE Alletra.
• Strong knowledge of NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, NVMe over TCP.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain storage infrastructure across multiple tiers: high-performance, capacity, archive, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery.
• Architect high-throughput, low-latency storage for simulations and telemetry workloads.
• Administer NetApp, Pure FlashArray/FlashBlade, Vast, and HPE Alletra.
• Monitor and troubleshoot storage across hardware, RDMA, and protocol layers.
• Troubleshoot complex issues requiring understanding of protocol interactions.
• Manage storage access and permissions across protocols and OS.
• Develop automation for monitoring, capacity planning, configuration management, and alerting.
• Define standards for deployment, performance tuning, and operational management.
• Collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams on storage strategy.
• Participate in on-call rotation and occasional hardware installation.

Skills

Storage engineering

NetApp

Pure Storage

Vast

HPE Alletra

NFS

CIFS/SMB

iSCSI

NVMe over TCP

Python

PowerShell

Ansible

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or STEM

Tools

Python

PowerShell

Ansible

Job description

SpaceX in Redmond, WA, is seeking an IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage infrastructure for mission‑critical workloads. The role emphasizes hands‑on work with NetApp, Pure, Vast, and HPE Alletra in an on‑premises environment to support simulations and telemetry.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years storage engineering experience with major platforms and strong knowledge of NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP, plus automation skills in Python/PowerShell/Ansible.