Platform & Infrastructure Engineer - Scale DevTools & K8s

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Software Engineer for Platform and Infrastructure (Starlink) to join the Core Infrastructure team in a role that bridges SRE, Platform Engineering, and database reliability. You will anticipate bottlenecks, reduce toil, and build a scalable internal developer platform to empower product teams to ship code securely and rapidly.

The role emphasizes diagnosing root causes, implementing systemic fixes, and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver robust, long-term solutions for

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 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

Networking

Infrastructure

Python

Go

Detail-oriented

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/STEM

Tools

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Bamboo

ArgoCD

Argo Workflows

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

OpenTelemetry

PostgreSQL

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Software Engineer for Platform and Infrastructure (Starlink) to join the Core Infrastructure team in a role that bridges SRE, Platform Engineering, and database reliability. You will anticipate bottlenecks, reduce toil, and build a scalable internal developer platform to empower product teams to ship code securely and rapidly.

The role emphasizes diagnosing root causes, implementing systemic fixes, and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver robust, long-term solutions for