Senior SRE: Mission-Critical Application Software

Starlink; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Vision coverage

Dental coverage

401(k)

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Paid parental leave

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Application Software) to build and maintain mission-critical vehicle software platforms that power Falcon 9, Starship, Dragon, and Starlink missions. You’ll develop tools to speed up build/test cycles and ensure safe, scalable operations across our fleet.

The role emphasizes ownership, strong problem solving, and collaboration with software engineers. Aerospace experience isn’t required; curiosity, safety focus, and a drive to improve

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 our suite of mission-critical products and services
• Manage our underlying infrastructure as code and use modern observability tools to provide a complete picture of application health
• Closely collaborate with software engineers to design and build highly operable, maintainable, and testable systems
• Engage in and improve the entire software development lifecycle - from inception and design through deployment, operation, and continuous refinement
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
• Provide high-quality end-user support to vehicle software engineers
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks using measurement and creative engineering

Skills

Python

Linux

SRE/DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

vSphere

QEMU

KVM

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Application Software) to build and maintain mission-critical vehicle software platforms that power Falcon 9, Starship, Dragon, and Starlink missions. You’ll develop tools to speed up build/test cycles and ensure safe, scalable operations across our fleet.

The role emphasizes ownership, strong problem solving, and collaboration with software engineers. Aerospace experience isn’t required; curiosity, safety focus, and a drive to improve