Production SRE for Mission-Critical Vehicle Software

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term cash awards

Health insurance

Vision and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Paid parental leave

3 weeks paid vacation and 10+ paid...

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Production Engineer, Site Reliability (Application Software) in Hawthorne, CA. You will build, maintain, and scale mission-critical application software tools that support Falcon 9, Starship, Dragon, and Starlink missions.

The role emphasizes a strong SRE mindset, safety, quality, and end-to-end ownership of systems. Collaboration with software engineers to design highly operable, testable infrastructure is required.

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 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 engineers
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks using measurement and creative engineering

Skills

Python

Linux

SRE/DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree or 3+ years in lieu

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

vSphere

QEMU

KVM

Postgres

MySQL

ClickHouse

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Production Engineer, Site Reliability (Application Software) in Hawthorne, CA. You will build, maintain, and scale mission-critical application software tools that support Falcon 9, Starship, Dragon, and Starlink missions.

The role emphasizes a strong SRE mindset, safety, quality, and end-to-end ownership of systems. Collaboration with software engineers to design highly operable, testable infrastructure is required.