Onsite Site Reliability Engineer - Manufacturing Infra

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

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to deploy and sustain compute, storage, and networking for Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab manufacturing systems. You will design for reliability, manage IaC, and partner with software engineers and site teams to keep downtime to a minimum.

Ideal candidates have 1+ year of software development and Linux experience, with a focus on scalable, mission-critical infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 3+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps in lieu of a degree
• 1+ years of software development experience
• Experience with Linux operating systems
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet or similar)
• Containers and virtualization (Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM, etc.)
• Databases and data modeling (Postgres, Clickhouse)
• Ability to translate high-level requirements into implementations from first principles
• Comfort operating across multiple sites and manufacturing programs

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, 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 blameless postmortems and blameless incident response
• 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

Software development

Linux

SRE/DevOps experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree or 3+ years SRE/DevOps

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Docker

Kubernetes

Postgres

Clickhouse

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to deploy and sustain compute, storage, and networking for Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab manufacturing systems. You will design for reliability, manage IaC, and partner with software engineers and site teams to keep downtime to a minimum.

Ideal candidates have 1+ year of software development and Linux experience, with a focus on scalable, mission-critical infrastructure.