Platform & Infrastructure Software Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term incentives

Discretionary bonuses

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Short and long-term disability insur

Life insurance

Paid parental leave

Paid vacation (3 weeks)

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Software Engineer for the Core Infrastructure team in Palo Alto. You will work at the intersection of Site Reliability, Platform, and Database Reliability to anticipate bottlenecks and build systemic fixes.

You’ll help create an internal developer platform enabling product teams to ship code securely while ensuring scalable persistence and infrastructure under heavy load. The role emphasizes treating infrastructure as software engineering, reducing operational toil, and

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

Networking

Python/Go programming

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/STEM

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

PostgreSQL

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Software Engineer for the Core Infrastructure team in Palo Alto. You will work at the intersection of Site Reliability, Platform, and Database Reliability to anticipate bottlenecks and build systemic fixes.

You’ll help create an internal developer platform enabling product teams to ship code securely while ensuring scalable persistence and infrastructure under heavy load. The role emphasizes treating infrastructure as software engineering, reducing operational toil, and