Site Reliability Engineer - HPC Compute Platforms

Spacex; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options and equity potential

Comprehensive medical, vision, dental

401(k) retirement plan and paid leave

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for its HPC platform in Hawthorne, CA. You will own the end-to-end reliability of Linux-based infrastructure, IaC pipelines, storage, and user-facing services, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, repeatable operations.

Ideal candidates bring hands-on production infra experience, strong scripting, and a passion for reducing toil while ensuring mission-critical systems meet user needs and project deadlines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline or 2+ years of production infra experience.
• 2+ years of Linux in production.
• 2+ years operating production infrastructure including monitoring, debugging, and repair.

Responsibilities

• Participate in on-call rotation and sustainable incident response.
• Manage node lifecycle with infrastructure as code: OS images, firmware, configuration, kernel/driver stack.
• Build observability for HPC admins and end users across cluster, node, and storage health.
• Reduce toil with automation; split time between operating prod systems and writing tooling.
• Sustainably manage resources including compute and storage.
• Lead capacity planning with users to forecast tomorrow's compute/storage needs.
• Collaborate with HPC systems engineers and other disciplines on maintainable infra.

Skills

Linux

Infrastructure as Code

Monitoring

Kubernetes

Python

DevOps

SRE

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline

2+ years of professional experience operating production infrastructure

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Nagios

Ansible

Puppet

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Slurm/PBS/LSF

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for its HPC platform in Hawthorne, CA. You will own the end-to-end reliability of Linux-based infrastructure, IaC pipelines, storage, and user-facing services, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, repeatable operations.

Ideal candidates bring hands-on production infra experience, strong scripting, and a passion for reducing toil while ensuring mission-critical systems meet user needs and project deadlines.