SRE: Infrastructure, Virtualization & Compute

SpaceX; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in Memphis, TN seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer specializing in infrastructure, virtualization, and compute. You will join IT Infrastructure to design, scale, and optimize enterprise compute and storage platforms, working with engineering teams on high-performance systems for mission critical workloads.

Responsibilities include capacity planning, HA, backup, automation via IaC, and collaboration with network, facilities, security teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or STEM and 1+ years of systems engineering experience; OR 3+ years of systems engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience deploying and supporting Linux servers in physical and virtualized environments (e.g. VMware via automation).
• Experience with the Linux shell as well as configuring and extending Linux instances (e.g. kernel modules, cgroups, pki, iptables, interfaces).

Responsibilities

• Design, install, operate, scale, and optimize enterprise compute, virtualization, and storage platforms (hypervisor clusters, purpose-built servers, NAS, SAN, object storage).
• Collaborate with SpaceX engineers to design, deploy, and support resilient, high-performance systems for engineering, production, and mission workloads.
• Perform capacity planning and performance engineering; implement high-availability, backup, replication, and DR for VMs, datastores, storage arrays.
• Install, configure, patch, and decommission servers, hypervisor hosts, and storage systems; contribute to hardware and platform standards.
• Automate provisioning, patching, and day-to-day operations with scripting, templates, and infrastructure as code to reduce toil.
• Document standards and best practices; partner with network, facilities, security, and application teams on connectivity and workload placement.

Skills

Problem solving

Self-motivation

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or STEM

Tools

VMware vSphere

Linux

Shell scripting

Ansible

Terraform

Kubernetes

Puppet

Python

PowerShell

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

InfluxDB

Jenkins

Job description

SpaceX in Memphis, TN seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer specializing in infrastructure, virtualization, and compute. You will join IT Infrastructure to design, scale, and optimize enterprise compute and storage platforms, working with engineering teams on high-performance systems for mission critical workloads.

Responsibilities include capacity planning, HA, backup, automation via IaC, and collaboration with network, facilities, security teams.