Site Reliability Engineer - AI GPU Infrastructure

Spacex; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 125,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term incentives

Health, vision and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid parental leave

3 weeks paid vacation and 10+ holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate, and scale Starshield software and GPU infrastructure supporting critical national security missions. You will develop automation to deploy on-premise resources, build scalable AI clusters, and collaborate with AI engineers across teams.

The role covers lifecycle management, high-availability systems, and operations across Top Secret datacenters, with a focus on performance, reliability, and security in a government-facing program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline with 1+ years in SRE/DevOps; or 3+ years in lieu of a degree.
• 1+ years of professional experience with Linux operating systems.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other infrastructure tools.
• Experience with containerization technologies (Kubernetes).
• Experience scripting in Bash, Python, or similar languages.
• Development experience in Python, C++, or Go.

Responsibilities

• Manage GPU/CPU infrastructure deployments to Top Secret datacenters.
• Provide support for GPU as a service on bare metal and virtualized platforms.
• Design, validate, and productize AI cluster solutions (100k+ GPU scale).
• Develop automation to deploy and manage on-premise Kubernetes AI clusters and OSes.
• Deploy and manage core infrastructure such as databases, monitoring, and distributed storage.
• Collaborate with AI engineers to create scalable, operable products.
• Improve lifecycle of services from inception to refinement.
• Ensure high availability through monitoring and alerting.
• Identify areas for improvement and create innovative solutions.

Skills

Linux

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Bash

Python

Go

C++

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate, and scale Starshield software and GPU infrastructure supporting critical national security missions. You will develop automation to deploy on-premise resources, build scalable AI clusters, and collaborate with AI engineers across teams.

The role covers lifecycle management, high-availability systems, and operations across Top Secret datacenters, with a focus on performance, reliability, and security in a government-facing program.