Site Reliability Engineer — Mission-Critical Vehicle Software

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

Job summary

SpaceX in Hawthorne, California seeks a Site Reliability Engineer for application software to build and scale mission-critical platforms that accelerate vehicle software delivery, testing, and operations across Falcon 9, Starship, Dragon, and Starlink.

You will deploy, upgrade, operate, and maintain the suite of tools and infrastructure, collaborating with software engineers to create highly operable systems and to improve the entire software lifecycle from design through deployment and

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 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

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline

3+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps in lieu of a degree

1+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks

Experience with Linux operating systems

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

vSphere

QEMU

KVM

Bazel

Buck

Make

Postgres

MySQL

ClickHouse

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Job description

SpaceX in Hawthorne, California seeks a Site Reliability Engineer for application software to build and scale mission-critical platforms that accelerate vehicle software delivery, testing, and operations across Falcon 9, Starship, Dragon, and Starlink.

You will deploy, upgrade, operate, and maintain the suite of tools and infrastructure, collaborating with software engineers to create highly operable systems and to improve the entire software lifecycle from design through deployment and