Senior SRE: Onsite Manufacturing Infrastructure

Starlink; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in Texas-based facilities seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure, to ensure factory uptime and scale across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab. You will own reliability practices and collaborate with manufacturing and software teams.

The ideal candidate has strong engineering fundamentals, Python and Linux experience, and competence with infrastructure as code, containers, and monitoring. Ability to travel to sites as needed is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/Engineering or 7+ years of SRE/DevOps experience.
• 3+ years 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

On-call support

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

SpaceX in Texas-based facilities seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure, to ensure factory uptime and scale across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab. You will own reliability practices and collaborate with manufacturing and software teams.

The ideal candidate has strong engineering fundamentals, Python and Linux experience, and competence with infrastructure as code, containers, and monitoring. Ability to travel to sites as needed is expected.