IT Storage Engineer

SpaceX

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Work type
On-site
Location
Hawthorne, CABastrop, TXRedmond, WABrownsville, TX
Salary
$135,000–$175,000 / yr
Posted
77 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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About SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the mission of enabling humans to become a multi-planetary species. It operates the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles, as well as the Starlink satellite internet constellation.

SpaceX currently has 851 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · IT Storage Engineer

The IT Storage Engineer joins the infrastructure team to design, implement, and maintain storage systems supporting mission-critical workloads like simulation, telemetry, and test data processing. The role involves architecting high-throughput, low-latency storage and supporting exabyte scale file systems across high-performance, capacity, archive, and disaster recovery tiers. Key responsibilities include administering NetApp, Pure FlashArray/FlashBlade, Vast, and HPE Alletra systems while monitoring performance across hardware, transport, and protocol layers. The engineer will develop automation for capacity planning and configuration management using Python, PowerShell, or Ansible. Required technical skills include proficiency with NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP protocols. The position requires troubleshooting complex interactions between various operating systems and protocols to ensure reliable data access and performance for high-concurrency workloads.

What you'll do

  • Design, implement, and maintain multi-tier storage infrastructure for high-performance, capacity, archive, and disaster recovery needs.
  • Architect and operate high-throughput, low-latency storage and exabyte-scale file systems for simulation and telemetry workloads.
  • Administer enterprise storage systems including NetApp, Pure FlashArray/FlashBlade, Vast, and HPE Alletra.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot storage performance across hardware, transport (RDMA), and protocol layers.
  • Manage storage access, data permissions, and access controls across various protocols and operating systems.
  • Develop automation and tooling for monitoring, capacity planning, configuration management, and alerting.
  • Define and enforce standards for storage deployment, performance tuning, and operational management.
  • Perform scheduled maintenance, on-call rotations, and physical hardware installations.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline and 3+ years of professional IT storage engineering experience.
  • 5+ years of IT storage engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
  • Experience with enterprise storage platforms including NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, and HPE Alletra.
  • Strong understanding of storage protocols including NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP.
  • Experience with client and server hardware/software, monitoring tools, enterprise networking, and virtualization (preferred).
  • Mid-level experience with DFS administration (preferred).
  • Experience automating infrastructure with Python, PowerShell, or Ansible (preferred).
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for Department of State authorization.

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