SRE — HPC Platform Engineer (Compute & ML)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options and long-term incentives

Bonuses and discretionary incentives

401(k) retirement plan

Medical, vision, dental coverage

Paid parental leave

3 weeks paid vacation

10+ paid holidays per year

Sick leave benefits

Job summary

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for High Performance Computing to own the production infrastructure as a product. This role emphasizes reducing toil, automating workflows, and building observability for HPC clusters, storage, and user-facing apps.

You will work with HPC systems engineers to improve reliability, operate real infrastructure, and write code to automate common tasks. A background in Linux, IaC, and on-call incident response is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline, or 2+ years of infra experience in lieu of a degree.
• 2+ years of experience with Linux operating systems in production.
• 2+ years operating production infrastructure (servers, services, or networks), including monitoring and debugging.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Monitoring/Alerting

Infrastructure as Code

Python scripting

Containers

Kubernetes (on-prem)

Distributed storage

HPC familiarity

Scientific computing/ML

Version control/CI

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math or scientific discipline

2+ years infra experience in lieu of degree

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Nagios

Ansible

Puppet

Terraform

Docker

Podman

Singularity/Apptainer

Kubernetes

Slurm/PBS/LSF

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Git

Job description

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for High Performance Computing to own the production infrastructure as a product. This role emphasizes reducing toil, automating workflows, and building observability for HPC clusters, storage, and user-facing apps.

You will work with HPC systems engineers to improve reliability, operate real infrastructure, and write code to automate common tasks. A background in Linux, IaC, and on-call incident response is essential.