Site Reliability Engineer — Mission-Critical Infra & Automation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) retirement plan

Medical, vision, dental coverage

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for the Application Software team to accelerate Falcon 9, Starship, Dragon, and Starlink missions. You will build and maintain mission-critical tooling that supports vehicle software delivery, testing, and operations across all programs.

The ideal candidate embraces a strong SRE mindset, safety, quality, and attention to detail, with the ability to understand the big picture before coding.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale our suite of mission-critical products and services
• Manage our underlying infrastructure as code and use modern observability tools to provide a complete picture of application health
• Closely collaborate with software engineers to design and build highly operable, maintainable, and testable systems
• Engage in and improve the entire software development lifecycle — from inception and design through deployment, operation, and continuous refinement
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
• Provide high-quality end-user support to vehicle software engineers
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks using measurement and creative engineering

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for the Application Software team to accelerate Falcon 9, Starship, Dragon, and Starlink missions. You will build and maintain mission-critical tooling that supports vehicle software delivery, testing, and operations across all programs.

The ideal candidate embraces a strong SRE mindset, safety, quality, and attention to detail, with the ability to understand the big picture before coding.