Site Reliability Engineer - Space & Manufacturing Systems

LinuxCareers; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to own infrastructure supporting Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab manufacturing systems. This role blends software engineering with infrastructure expertise to ensure factory uptime, throughput, and production scale across multiple programs.

Responsibilities include deploying and scaling compute, storage, and networking, managing infrastructure as code, and ensuring platform health through observability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or engineering; OR 3+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps.
• 1+ years of software development experience.
• Experience with Linux operating systems.
• Ability to pass Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral access.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, Refugee, or Asylee (ITAR compliance)

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 complete visibility of platform health.
• Design for reliability, stability, and scale; identify and remove bottlenecks through measurement and engineering.
• Practice proactive maintenance including capacity planning, lifecycle management, and toil reduction.
• Partner with software engineers, manufacturing stakeholders, and site teams to build operable and maintainable systems.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, blameless postmortems, and travel to sites as needed for deployments and cross-site reliability work] ,

Skills

SRE

DevOps

Software development

Observability

On-call

Education

Bachelors in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Docker

Kubernetes

vSphere

QEMU

KVM

Job description

SpaceX seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to own infrastructure supporting Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab manufacturing systems. This role blends software engineering with infrastructure expertise to ensure factory uptime, throughput, and production scale across multiple programs.

Responsibilities include deploying and scaling compute, storage, and networking, managing infrastructure as code, and ensuring platform health through observability.