Site Reliability Engineer, Data Center Infra — Onsite

Spacex; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for Data Center Infrastructure to strengthen reliability across manufacturing platforms including Starship and Starlink. You will own capacity planning, incident response, and the scaling of compute, storage, and networking infrastructures at multiple sites and programs.

The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals, ownership mindset, and the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline or 3+ years of SRE/DevOps experience in lieu of a degree.
• 1+ years of software development experience.
• 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

Software development

SRE/DevOps practices

Linux

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/Engineering

3+ years SRE/DevOps experience in lieu of a degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Docker

Kubernetes

vSphere

QEMU

KVM

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for Data Center Infrastructure to strengthen reliability across manufacturing platforms including Starship and Starlink. You will own capacity planning, incident response, and the scaling of compute, storage, and networking infrastructures at multiple sites and programs.

The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals, ownership mindset, and the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders.