IT Storage Engineer - High-Performance On-Prem

SpaceX; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in Redmond, WA is seeking an experienced IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain multi-tier storage infrastructure for mission-critical workloads. You will administer NetApp, Pure, Vast, and HPE Alletra, optimize high-throughput storage, and develop automation for monitoring and capacity planning.

Collaboration with compute, networking, and application teams is essential for aligned system architecture.

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 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

Storage engineering

NFS/CIFS/SMB/iSCSI/NVMe

Automation tools

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or 5+ years experience in lieu

Tools

NetApp

Pure Storage

Vast

HPE Alletra

Job description

SpaceX in Redmond, WA is seeking an experienced IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain multi-tier storage infrastructure for mission-critical workloads. You will administer NetApp, Pure, Vast, and HPE Alletra, optimize high-throughput storage, and develop automation for monitoring and capacity planning.

Collaboration with compute, networking, and application teams is essential for aligned system architecture.