Senior SRE, Data Center Infra — Onsite, Factory-Uptime

SpaceX; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is hiring a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer for Data Center Infrastructure to ensure reliable compute, storage, and networking across manufacturing environments including Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab.

You will own reliability, scalability, and proactive maintenance for critical factory systems. The role partners with software engineers and site teams, requires on-site work, and involves on-call duties and potential travel to Hawthorne, Redmond, Cape Canaveral, and Starbase

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

Linux

Communication

Education

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

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Docker

Kubernetes

vSphere

QEMU

KVM

Job description

SpaceX is hiring a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer for Data Center Infrastructure to ensure reliable compute, storage, and networking across manufacturing environments including Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab.

You will own reliability, scalability, and proactive maintenance for critical factory systems. The role partners with software engineers and site teams, requires on-site work, and involves on-call duties and potential travel to Hawthorne, Redmond, Cape Canaveral, and Starbase