Mission-Critical IT Storage Engineer (On-Prem)

SpaceX; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX seeks an IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain on-prem storage infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads. You will work with NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, and HPE Alletra, ensuring high performance and reliability for simulation and telemetry data.

The role requires expertise in storage protocols (NFS, SMB, iSCSI, NVMe/TCP) and automation development. Expect collaboration across compute, networking, and applications teams, with on-call duties and occasional

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or STEM field with 3+ years IT storage engineering experience; 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, 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 for exabyte-scale file systems and workloads.
• Administer storage systems including NetApp, Pure FlashArray/FlashBlade, Vast, and HPE Alletra.
• Monitor and troubleshoot storage performance across hardware, transport, and protocol layers.
• Develop automation for monitoring, capacity planning, configuration management, and alerting.
• Define and enforce standards for storage deployment and operations.
• Collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams to align storage strategies.
• Participate in maintenance, on-call rotation, and occasional hardware installation.

Skills

Storage design

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

5+ years storage experience in lieu of degree

Tools

NetApp

Pure Storage

Vast

HPE Alletra

NFS

SMB/CIFS

iSCSI

NVMe over TCP

Job description

SpaceX seeks an IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain on-prem storage infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads. You will work with NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, and HPE Alletra, ensuring high performance and reliability for simulation and telemetry data.

The role requires expertise in storage protocols (NFS, SMB, iSCSI, NVMe/TCP) and automation development. Expect collaboration across compute, networking, and applications teams, with on-call duties and occasional