Senior SRE: Manufacturing Infrastructure (Onsite)

SpaceX; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen manufacturing infrastructure across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab.

This on-site role focuses on reliability, scalability, and proactive maintenance within how we deploy compute, storage, and networking for critical programs. You will partner with software and manufacturing teams, drive infrastructure as code, and own incident response and postmortems to minimize toil.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 7+ years of professional experience in SRE/DevOps in lieu of a degree.
• 3+ years of 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

On-call readiness

Education

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

3+ years Python development

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Docker

Kubernetes

vSphere

QEMU/KVM

Postgres

Clickhouse

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen manufacturing infrastructure across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab.

This on-site role focuses on reliability, scalability, and proactive maintenance within how we deploy compute, storage, and networking for critical programs. You will partner with software and manufacturing teams, drive infrastructure as code, and own incident response and postmortems to minimize toil.