Site Reliability Engineer — AI Infra & GPU Clusters

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k)

Health coverage

Paid time off

Job summary

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate, and scale Starshield AI infrastructure and GPU clusters. You will automate deployments, manage on-premise resources, and collaborate with AI engineers to build scalable, reliable products.

You’ll work across CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response in a security-focused environment requiring top-tier clearance and cross-functional teamwork.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, or an engineering discipline, or 3+ years of professional experience in site reliability engineering or DevOps 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 (i.e. OCI containers, Kubernetes).
• Experience scripting in Bash, Python, or other similar languages.
• Development experience in Python, C++, or Go.

Responsibilities

• Manage and provide support for GPU as a service for external customers on bare metal hardware and virtualized platforms.
• Design, validate, and productize solutions for AI clusters (100k+ GPU scale).
• Develop automation to deploy and manage on-premise Kubernetes/AI clusters, and operating systems.
• Deploy and manage core infrastructure such as databases, monitoring and distributed storage.
• Closely collaborate with AI engineers to create highly scalable, operable, and maintainable products.
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services -- from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.
• Monitoring and alerting supporting systems to have high availability.
• Identify areas for improvement and create innovative solutions that enable high system availability.

Skills

DevOps experience

Linux

Scripting

Python

Go

C++

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

OCI containers

Makefiles/Bazel

Job description

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate, and scale Starshield AI infrastructure and GPU clusters. You will automate deployments, manage on-premise resources, and collaborate with AI engineers to build scalable, reliable products.

You’ll work across CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response in a security-focused environment requiring top-tier clearance and cross-functional teamwork.