IT Storage Engineer - High-Performance, Mission-Critical Storage

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Bonuses

Medical, vision, dental

401(k)

Vacation time

10+ holidays per year

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain a multi-tier storage infrastructure supporting simulation, telemetry, and test data processing. The role emphasizes on-premises workloads with NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, and HPE Alletra platforms.

The candidate will collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to automation, standards, and DR planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related STEM field with 3+ years in IT storage engineering; or 5+ years 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, NVMe over TCP.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain storage infrastructure across multiple tiers (high-performance, capacity, archive, backup/recovery, DR).
• Architect and operate high-throughput, low-latency storage for mission-critical workloads.
• Administer NetApp, Pure, Vast, and HPE Alletra storage systems.

Skills

Storage design

Performance tuning

High availability

Networking knowledge

Automation scripting

iSCSI

NVMe over TCP

NFS

CIFS/SMB

Python

PowerShell

Ansible

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

NetApp

Pure Storage

Vast

HPE Alletra

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain a multi-tier storage infrastructure supporting simulation, telemetry, and test data processing. The role emphasizes on-premises workloads with NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, and HPE Alletra platforms.

The candidate will collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams, participate in on-call rotations, and contribute to automation, standards, and DR planning.