IT Storage Engineer: High-Performance On-Prem Storage

SpaceX; Brownsville (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an experienced IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage infrastructure across high-performance tiers supporting simulation, telemetry, and test data processing.

You will manage NetApp, Pure, Vast, and HPE Alletra systems on-prem, develop automation with Python/Ansible, and collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams to meet demanding workload requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or STEM with 3+ years IT storage experience or 5+ years without 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, 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 hardware, transport (RDMA), and protocol layers.
• 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 over TCP

Python

Ansible

PowerShell

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

NetApp

Pure Storage

Vast

HPE Alletra

Ansible

PowerShell

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an experienced IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage infrastructure across high-performance tiers supporting simulation, telemetry, and test data processing.

You will manage NetApp, Pure, Vast, and HPE Alletra systems on-prem, develop automation with Python/Ansible, and collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams to meet demanding workload requirements.