SRE: Platform Infrastructure for High-Scale Manufacturing

Starlink; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for Platform Infrastructure to ensure reliability and scalability of compute, storage, and networking across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab manufacturing systems. This role focuses on owning infrastructure with on-call responsibilities and travel to sites.

The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, experience with Linux, IaC, containers, and observability; aerospace background not required; onsite only.

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 software development experience
• Experience with Linux operating systems

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 a complete picture of platform health
• Design for reliability, stability, and scale; find and remove bottlenecks with measurement and engineering
• Practice proactive maintenance: capacity planning, lifecycle management, and reducing toil before it becomes an incident
• Partner with software engineers, manufacturing stakeholders, and site teams to build operable, maintainable systems
• Improve the full lifecycle—from design through deployment, operation, and continuous refinement
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
• Provide high-quality support to manufacturing and engineering users
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders and teammates
• Participate in on-call and travel to sites as needed for deployments, incidents, and cross-site reliability

Skills

Software development

Linux

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering or 3+ years SRE/DevOps experience

Experience with Linux operating systems

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Docker

Kubernetes

vSphere

QEMU

KVM

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for Platform Infrastructure to ensure reliability and scalability of compute, storage, and networking across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab manufacturing systems. This role focuses on owning infrastructure with on-call responsibilities and travel to sites.

The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, experience with Linux, IaC, containers, and observability; aerospace background not required; onsite only.