Senior SRE – Data Center Infra for Space Manufacturing

Starlink; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer for Data Center Infrastructure to scale and maintain manufacturing compute, storage, and networking across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab. You will own reliability, observability, and capacity planning for mission-critical sites.

A strong foundation in Python, Linux, and IaC is required; travel to multiple sites is expected. On-site work is mandatory to support aerospace manufacturing environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 7+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps in lieu of a degree
• 3+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
• Experience with Linux operating systems

Responsibilities

• Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale compute, storage, and networking for manufacturing systems across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab
• Manage infrastructure as code and use observability to provide a complete picture of platform health
• Design for reliability, stability, and scale; find and remove bottlenecks with measurement and engineering
• Practice proactive maintenance: capacity planning, lifecycle management, and reducing toil before it becomes an incident
• Partner with software engineers, manufacturing stakeholders, and site teams to build operable, maintainable systems
• Improve the full lifecycle—from design through deployment, operation, and continuous refinement
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
• Provide high-quality support to manufacturing and engineering users
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders and teammates
• Participate in on-call and travel to sites as needed for deployments, incidents, and cross-site reliability

Skills

Python development

Linux systems

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering or 7+ years SRE/DevOps

Tools

Terraform/Ansible/Puppet

Docker/Kubernetes

Postgres/ClickHouse

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer for Data Center Infrastructure to scale and maintain manufacturing compute, storage, and networking across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab. You will own reliability, observability, and capacity planning for mission-critical sites.

A strong foundation in Python, Linux, and IaC is required; travel to multiple sites is expected. On-site work is mandatory to support aerospace manufacturing environments.