Site Reliability Engineer, Data Center Infrastructure

SpaceX; Texas; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in the United States is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for Data Center Infrastructure to deploy and operate compute, storage, and networking across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab. You will use IaC tools such as Terraform and Ansible, container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, and collaborate with manufacturing teams to ensure reliability and capacity planning.

On-call duties apply with travel to Hawthorne, Redmond, Cape Canaveral, and Starbase, TX as needed for

Qualifications

• 1+ years of software development experience.
• Experience with Linux operating systems.
• Degree or 3+ years of SRE/DevOps experience.
• Ability to work onsite at multiple sites.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, upgrade, operate, and scale compute, storage, and networking for manufacturing systems.
• Manage infrastructure as code and observability to monitor platform health.
• Design for reliability and scale; remove bottlenecks via measurement and engineering.
• Plan capacity, lifecycle management, and reduce toil to prevent incidents.
• Collaborate with software engineers and site teams to build operable systems.
• Improve the full lifecycle from design to deployment and refinement.
• Participate in on-call and cross-site reliability activities.
• Provide high-quality support to manufacturing and engineering users.
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders and teammates.
• Travel to sites for deployments, incidents, and cross-site work.

Skills

Linux

Software development

SRE / DevOps

Observability

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Job description

SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER, DATA CENTER INFRASTRUCTURE

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal ofenabling human life on Mars.

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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 3+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps in lieu of a degree
• 1+ years of software development experience
• Experience with Linux operating systems

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with compute, storage, and/or networking infrastructure in production
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar)
• Containers and virtualization (Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM, etc.)
• Databases and data modeling (Postgres, Clickhouse, etc.)
• Ability to translate high-level requirements into implementations from first principles
• Comfort with mission-critical systems and appropriate urgency and care
• Skillful communication with customers, peers, and management
• Comfort operating across multiple sites and manufacturing programs

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed
• Must be able to travel to different sites (Hawthorne, CA; Redmond, WA; Cape Canaveral, FL; Starbase, TX)
• Ability to pass Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral
• This role requires you to be onsite. Remote and/or hybrid work will not be considered

ITAR REQUIREMENTS:

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. * 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. * 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX's Affinative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should reach out [e-mail].