SpaceX - Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Infrastructure
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 7+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps in lieu of a degree • 3+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks • Experience with Linux operating systems • Experience with compute, storage, and/or networking infrastructure in production • Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar) • Containers and virtualization (Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM, etc.) • Databases and data modeling (Postgres, Clickhouse, etc.) • Ability to translate high-level requirements into implementations from first principles • Comfort with mission-critical systems and appropriate urgency and care • Skillful communication with customers, peers, and management • Comfort operating across multiple sites and manufacturing programs • Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed • Must be able to travel to different sites (Hawthorne, CA; Redmond, WA; Cape Canaveral, FL; Starbase, TX) • Ability to pass Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral • This role requires you to be onsite. Remote and/or hybrid work will not be considered • To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
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
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