Senior SRE: AI GPU Infra & On-Prem Kubernetes

SpaceX; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in Redmond, WA is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build and scale AI infrastructure for Starshield. You will design and operate on‑premise compute resources, Kubernetes/AI clusters, and related software, collaborating with AI engineers to deliver highly available services.

The role emphasizes automation, performance tuning, and mentoring junior engineers, with opportunities to shape the reliability culture across the Starshield platform and ensure mission-critical uptime for

Qualifications

• Bachelors or higher in CS/IT or engineering with 5+ years on Linux/SRE/DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Manage and provide support for GPU as a service on bare metal and virtualized platforms.
• Design, validate, and productize AI clusters at 100k+ GPU scale.
• Develop automation to deploy and manage on-premise Kubernetes/AI clusters and OSes.
• Deploy and manage core infrastructure including databases, monitoring and distributed storage.
• Collaborate with AI engineers to create scalable, operable products.
• Engage in and improve lifecycle of services from design to deployment and refinement.
• Monitor and alert supporting systems for high availability.
• Identify improvement areas and implement innovative solutions for reliability.
• Mentor and train junior engineers; lead the team to technical excellence.

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux

Terraform

Ansible

Bash

Python

Go

C++

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or engineering

Tools

Bazel

Makefiles

OCI containers

Job description

SpaceX in Redmond, WA is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build and scale AI infrastructure for Starshield. You will design and operate on‑premise compute resources, Kubernetes/AI clusters, and related software, collaborating with AI engineers to deliver highly available services.

The role emphasizes automation, performance tuning, and mentoring junior engineers, with opportunities to shape the reliability culture across the Starshield platform and ensure mission-critical uptime for