Storage Engineer: High-Performance, Mission-Critical Data

SpaceX; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an experienced storage engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage infrastructure across multiple tiers in an on-premises environment.

The ideal candidate will manage NetApp, Pure Storage, and Vast systems, with expertise in NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP. Responsibilities include performance monitoring, automation development, and coordinating with compute and network teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or STEM field, or 5+ years of storage engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience with enterprise storage platforms: NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, HPE Alletra.
• Strong knowledge 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 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 hardware, transport (RDMA), and protocol layers.
• Troubleshoot complex issues that require understanding interaction of protocols and OS.
• Manage storage access, data permissions, and access controls across protocols and OS.
• 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 workload requirements.
• Participate in scheduled maintenance, on-call rotation, and occasional hardware installation.

Skills

NetApp

Pure Storage

Vast

iSCSI

NFS

SMB

NVMe over TCP

Python

PowerShell

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

NetApp System Manager

Pure Storage FlashArray API

Vast Storage

HPE Alletra Management

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an experienced storage engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise storage infrastructure across multiple tiers in an on-premises environment.

The ideal candidate will manage NetApp, Pure Storage, and Vast systems, with expertise in NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP. Responsibilities include performance monitoring, automation development, and coordinating with compute and network teams.