SpaceX seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to own infrastructure supporting Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab manufacturing systems. This role combines software engineering fundamentals with infrastructure expertise to ensure factory uptime, throughput, and production scale across multiple programs.
What You'll Do
- 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 complete visibility of platform health
- Design for reliability, stability, and scale; identify and remove bottlenecks through measurement and engineering
- Practice proactive maintenance including capacity planning, lifecycle management, and toil reduction
- Partner with software engineers, manufacturing stakeholders, and site teams to build operable and maintainable systems
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, blameless postmortems, and travel to sites as needed for deployments and cross-site reliability work
What You Need
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or engineering discipline; OR 3+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps
- 1+ years of software development experience
- Experience with Linux operating systems
- Ability to pass Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral access
- Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, Refugee, or Asylee (ITAR compliance)
Nice to Have
- Experience with compute, storage, and/or networking infrastructure in production
- Infrastructure as code tools: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar
- Containers and virtualization: Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM
- Database experience with Postgres, Clickhouse, or similar systems
- Ability to translate high-level requirements into implementations from first principles
- Comfort with mission-critical systems and appropriate urgency and care