IT Storage Engineer — High-Performance, Multi-Tier Storage

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Brownsville (TX); 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 supporting mission-critical workloads.

The role requires hands-on expertise with NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, and HPE Alletra in on-prem environments, plus strong knowledge of NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP. You will collaborate across compute, networking, and app teams and participate in on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related STEM field, or 3+ years of storage experience.
• 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.
• 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 involve multiple protocols and operating systems.
• Manage storage access, data permissions, and access controls across protocols.
• Develop automation and tooling for monitoring, capacity 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 maintenance, on-call rotation, and occasional hardware installation.

Skills

Storage engineering

NetApp

Pure Storage

NVMe over TCP

iSCSI

NFS/CIFS

Automation

Python

On-prem infrastructure

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

NetApp

Pure Storage

Vast

HPE Alletra

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an experienced IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain storage infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads.

The role requires hands-on expertise with NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, and HPE Alletra in on-prem environments, plus strong knowledge of NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP. You will collaborate across compute, networking, and app teams and participate in on-call rotations.