Production Site Reliability Engineer—Mission-Critical Infra

Starlink; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) plan

Medical, vision, and dental insurance

Job summary

SpaceX in Hawthorne, California seeks a Production Engineer, Site Reliability (Application Software) to build mission-critical platforms that accelerate vehicle software delivery, testing, and operations for Falcon 9, Starship, and Dragon missions and Starlink’s growth. This role requires a strong SRE mindset, attention to safety and quality, and the ability to own challenging problems.

You’ll design scalable tools, support the full dev lifecycle, and participate in blameless postmortems to

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale our suite of mission-critical products and services
• Manage our underlying infrastructure as code and use modern observability tools to provide a complete picture of application health
• Closely collaborate with software engineers to design and build highly operable, maintainable, and testable systems
• Engage in and improve the entire software development lifecycle — from inception and design through deployment, operation, and continuous refinement
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
• Provide high-quality end-user support to vehicle software engineersParticipate in the team’s on-call rotation
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks using measurement and creative engineering

Skills

Python

Linux

Education

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

3+ years of professional SRE/DevOps experience in lieu of a degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

vSphere

QEMU

KVM

PostgreSQL

MySQL

ClickHouse

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Bazel

Buck

Make

Job description

SpaceX in Hawthorne, California seeks a Production Engineer, Site Reliability (Application Software) to build mission-critical platforms that accelerate vehicle software delivery, testing, and operations for Falcon 9, Starship, and Dragon missions and Starlink’s growth. This role requires a strong SRE mindset, attention to safety and quality, and the ability to own challenging problems.

You’ll design scalable tools, support the full dev lifecycle, and participate in blameless postmortems to