Site Reliability Engineer, Manufacturing Infrastructure

SpaceX; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for manufacturing infrastructure to ensure reliable compute, storage, and networking across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab. You will own infrastructure, automate, and scale operations to maximize factory uptime and throughput.

The role emphasizes tackling hard problems, ownership, on‑call readiness, travel to sites, and collaboration with software engineers and manufacturing teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline or 3+ years of professional SRE/DevOps experience.
• 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 programs.
• Manage infrastructure as code and use observability to provide a complete picture of platform health.
• Design for reliability, stability, and scale; remove bottlenecks with measurement and engineering.
• Practice proactive maintenance: capacity planning, lifecycle management, and reducing toil.
• Partner with software engineers, manufacturing stakeholders, and site teams to build operable, maintainable systems.

Skills

Software development

Education

Bachelor's degree or 3+ years experience in SRE/DevOps

Tools

Linux

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

vSphere

QEMU

KVM

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for manufacturing infrastructure to ensure reliable compute, storage, and networking across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab. You will own infrastructure, automate, and scale operations to maximize factory uptime and throughput.

The role emphasizes tackling hard problems, ownership, on‑call readiness, travel to sites, and collaboration with software engineers and manufacturing teams.