Storage Architect – Exabyte-Scale, High-Performance On-Prem

SpaceX; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Shuttle service from Seattle to Redmon

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an IT Storage Engineer in Redmond to design, deploy, and maintain high-performance storage infrastructure for mission-critical workloads such as simulation, telemetry, and test data processing. Ideal candidates will have hands-on experience with NetApp, Pure Storage, and Vast, along with NFS, SMB/CIFS, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP.

Strong scripting and automation skills (Python/PowerShell/Ansible) are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or STEM with 3+ years of professional IT storage engineering experience; OR 5+ years of IT storage engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience with enterprise storage platforms: NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, HPE Alletra.
• Strong understanding of storage protocols: NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain storage infrastructure across multiple tiers: high-performance, capacity, archive, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery.
• Architect and operate high-throughput, low-latency storage and support exabyte scale file systems (e.g., VAST,) for simulation, telemetry, and high-concurrency workloads.
• Administer storage systems including NetApp, Pure FlashArray/FlashBlade, Vast, and HPE Alletra.
• Monitor and troubleshoot storage performance across the full stack: hardware, transport (RDMA), and protocol layers.
• Troubleshoot complex issues that require an understanding of the interaction of various protocols and operating systems.
• Manage storage access, data permissions, and access controls across different protocols and operating systems.
• Develop automation and tooling for monitoring, capacity utilization and planning, configuration management, and alerting.
• Define and enforce standards for storage deployment, performance tuning, and operational management.
• Collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams to align storage strategies with system architecture and workload requirements.
• Participate in scheduled maintenance, on-call rotation, and occasional physical installation of hardware.

Skills

Python

PowerShell

Ansible

Networking knowledge

Virtualization

DFS administration

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or STEM with 3+ years experience or 5+ years without degree

Tools

NetApp

Pure Storage

Vast

HPE Alletra

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an IT Storage Engineer in Redmond to design, deploy, and maintain high-performance storage infrastructure for mission-critical workloads such as simulation, telemetry, and test data processing. Ideal candidates will have hands-on experience with NetApp, Pure Storage, and Vast, along with NFS, SMB/CIFS, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP.

Strong scripting and automation skills (Python/PowerShell/Ansible) are highly valued.