Senior SRE: AI Infrastructure & GPU Clusters

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Comprehensive medical, vision & dental

Paid vacation & holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is hiring a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer focused on AI infrastructure for Starshield. You will design, operate, and scale GPU-enabled on-premise and Kubernetes-based AI clusters, and automate deployment and management of core services, databases, and storage.

You will mentor junior engineers, drive reliability across the lifecycle, and collaborate with AI teams to deliver scalable, operable products while supporting 100k+ GPU scale and demanding security clearances.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline and 5+ years of professional experience with Linux operating systems; OR 7+ years in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ year of experience with Kubernetes
• 5+ year of experience managing Linux operating systems
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other infrastructure tools
• Experience with containerization technologies (i.e. OCI containers, Kubernetes)
• Experience scripting in Bash, Python, or other similar languages
• Development experience in Python, C++, or Go

Responsibilities

• Manage and provide support for GPU as a service for external customers on bare metal hardware and virtualized platforms
• Design, validate, and productize solutions for AI clusters (100k+ GPU scale)
• Develop automation to deploy and manage on-premise Kubernetes/AI clusters, and operating systems
• Deploy and manage core infrastructure such as databases, monitoring and distributed storage
• Closely collaborate with AI engineers to create highly scalable, operable, and maintainable products
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services -- from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement
• Monitoring and alerting supporting systems to have high availability
• Identify areas for improvement and create innovative solutions that enable high system availability
• Mentor and train junior engineers
• As a senior engineer you must lead the team to technical excellence – your decisions guide the team

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or engineering

Tools

OCI containers

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

SpaceX is hiring a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer focused on AI infrastructure for Starshield. You will design, operate, and scale GPU-enabled on-premise and Kubernetes-based AI clusters, and automate deployment and management of core services, databases, and storage.

You will mentor junior engineers, drive reliability across the lifecycle, and collaborate with AI teams to deliver scalable, operable products while supporting 100k+ GPU scale and demanding security clearances.