Mission-Critical Storage Engineer (On-Prem, High-Performance)

Spacex; Bastrop (TX); Híbrido; USD 110.000 - 160.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

SpaceX is seeking an IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain a multi-tier storage infrastructure across high-performance, capacity, and archive domains. You will manage NetApp, Pure, Vast, and HPE Alletra systems, while ensuring low-latency performance for simulation and telemetry workloads.

The role emphasizes hands-on administration, automation, and collaboration with compute and network teams, with on-call rotations and occasional hardware installs.

Formación

• 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.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

NetApp Storage

Pure Storage

iSCSI

Storage Performance

Automation (Python/PowerShell/Ansible)

Educación

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or STEM

Herramientas

NetApp

Pure FlashArray/FlashBlade

Vast

HPE Alletra

Descripción del empleo

SpaceX is seeking an IT Storage Engineer to design, implement, and maintain a multi-tier storage infrastructure across high-performance, capacity, and archive domains. You will manage NetApp, Pure, Vast, and HPE Alletra systems, while ensuring low-latency performance for simulation and telemetry workloads.

The role emphasizes hands-on administration, automation, and collaboration with compute and network teams, with on-call rotations and occasional hardware installs.