IT Storage Engineer — High-Performance Mission-Critical

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

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an experienced IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain storage infrastructure across multiple tiers in an on-premises environment. You will support mission-critical workloads for simulation, telemetry, and test data processing with hands-on expertise in Pure and NetApp platforms.

Ideal candidates will manage high-throughput, low-latency storage, administer NetApp, Pure, Vast, and HPE Alletra systems, and develop automation for monitoring and capacity planning.

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

NFS

SMB/CIFS

iSCSI

NVMe over TCP

Automation (Python/PowerShell/Ansible)

Collaboration with compute/networking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE or STEM

Tools

NetApp

Pure Storage

Vast

HPE Alletra

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an experienced IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain storage infrastructure across multiple tiers in an on-premises environment. You will support mission-critical workloads for simulation, telemetry, and test data processing with hands-on expertise in Pure and NetApp platforms.

Ideal candidates will manage high-throughput, low-latency storage, administer NetApp, Pure, Vast, and HPE Alletra systems, and develop automation for monitoring and capacity planning.