Onsite Platform SRE for Space Manufacturing Uptime

Starlink; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer for Platform Infrastructure to help ensure reliability across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab. You will design, deploy, and operate scalable infrastructure for manufacturing systems, with ownership of lifecycle from design to incident response.

The role emphasizes strong Python/Linux skills, IaC, and collaboration with engineering and manufacturing teams. On-site with travel to sites as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 7+ years of professional SRE/DevOps experience.
• Strong Python and Linux experience; on-call readiness and ownership.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and scalable platform design.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale compute, storage, and networking for manufacturing systems across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab
• Manage infrastructure as code and use observability to provide a complete picture of platform health
• Design for reliability, stability, and scale; find and remove bottlenecks with measurement and engineering
• Practice proactive maintenance: capacity planning, lifecycle management, and reducing toil before it becomes an incident
• Partner with software engineers, manufacturing stakeholders, and site teams to build operable, maintainable systems
• Improve the full lifecycle—from design through deployment, operation, and continuous refinement
• Practice sustainable 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, incidents, and cross-site reliability

Skills

Python

Linux

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline

7+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps in lieu of a degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Docker

Kubernetes

Postgres

Clickhouse

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer for Platform Infrastructure to help ensure reliability across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab. You will design, deploy, and operate scalable infrastructure for manufacturing systems, with ownership of lifecycle from design to incident response.

The role emphasizes strong Python/Linux skills, IaC, and collaboration with engineering and manufacturing teams. On-site with travel to sites as needed.