Onsite Senior SRE, Data Center Infra

SpaceX; Texas; On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for data center infrastructure. You will own deploying and scaling compute, storage, and networking across manufacturing platforms, with a focus on reliability, observability, and proactive maintenance.

You will collaborate with software, manufacturing, and site teams to deliver robust, maintainable systems. You will join a mission‑driven team that values ownership, clear communication, and accountability, and you will travel to sites for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 7+ years of professional experience in SRE/DevOps in lieu of a degree.
• 3+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
• Experience with Linux operating systems

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

Education

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

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Docker

Kubernetes

vSphere

QEMU

KVM

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for data center infrastructure. You will own deploying and scaling compute, storage, and networking across manufacturing platforms, with a focus on reliability, observability, and proactive maintenance.

You will collaborate with software, manufacturing, and site teams to deliver robust, maintainable systems. You will join a mission‑driven team that values ownership, clear communication, and accountability, and you will travel to sites for