Manufacturing Infra SRE: Scale Factory Systems

Starlink; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for manufacturing infrastructure to ensure factory uptime and scalable operations across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab. You will own compute, storage, and networking reliability, collaborate with engineers and site teams, and drive proactive maintenance and capacity planning.

The role emphasizes on-site work, strong problemsolving, ownership, and ability to travel to multiple site locations for deployments and incidents.

Qualifications

• Degree or 3+ years of SRE/DevOps experience in lieu of a degree.
• At least 1 year of software development experience.
• Experience with Linux operating systems.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale compute, storage, and networking for manufacturing systems across programs.
• Manage infrastructure as code and use observability to provide a complete picture of platform health.
• Design for reliability, stability, and scale; remove bottlenecks with measurement and engineering.
• Practice proactive maintenance: capacity planning, lifecycle management, and reducing toil.
• Partner with software engineers and site teams to build operable systems.
• Improve the full lifecycle—from design through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Practice incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Provide high-quality support to manufacturing and engineering users.
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders and teammates.
• Participate in on-call and travel to sites as needed for deployments and incidents.

Skills

Software development

Linux

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or 3+ years in SRE/DevOps

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for manufacturing infrastructure to ensure factory uptime and scalable operations across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab. You will own compute, storage, and networking reliability, collaborate with engineers and site teams, and drive proactive maintenance and capacity planning.

The role emphasizes on-site work, strong problemsolving, ownership, and ability to travel to multiple site locations for deployments and incidents.