Platform & Infra Engineer: Core Infra & SRE

SpaceX_Global; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term incentives

Medical, vision, dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid parental leave

3 weeks of paid vacation

10+ paid holidays

Sick leave

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Software Engineer for the Core Infrastructure team within Starlink. You will help build the internal developer platform, ensure reliable persistence, and scale infrastructure under heavy load.

You will identify underlying bottlenecks, collaborate across teams, and treat infrastructure as code to reduce operational toil. This role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and architectural investigation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a STEM discipline.
• 1+ years of professional experience with networking or infrastructure projects.
• 1+ years of professional experience programming in Python, Go, or a similar language used in infrastructure and platform work.
• Strong attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks by analyzing system metrics, database queries, and cloud resource usage before they impact users.
• Build and maintain the internal developer platform, including the self-service tools and CI/CD pipelines.
• Operate and secure the production Kubernetes clusters that run our customer-facing website, managed as code.
• Partner with application teams to optimize slow SQL queries and manage database schema changes safely.
• Investigate infrastructure requests to understand the real underlying need and propose better long-term solutions.

Skills

Python

Go

Networking

Infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a STEM discipline

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Argo Workflows

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

ClickHouse

OpenTelemetry

PostgreSQL

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Software Engineer for the Core Infrastructure team within Starlink. You will help build the internal developer platform, ensure reliable persistence, and scale infrastructure under heavy load.

You will identify underlying bottlenecks, collaborate across teams, and treat infrastructure as code to reduce operational toil. This role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and architectural investigation.