Security Engineer (Infrastructure)

SpaceX

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Bastrop, TX
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11 days ago
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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.

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TL;DR · Security Engineer (Infrastructure)

The Security Engineer (Infrastructure) joins the Information Security team to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of enterprise systems and processes. This role involves designing, building, and operating on-premises Kubernetes clusters to host security services. Key responsibilities include automating cluster build-outs, managing compute, storage, and networking, and hardening workloads through RBAC, policy, and secrets management. The engineer must respond to production incidents, instrument clusters for observability, and coordinate with software and IT partners to reduce risk. Required technical skills include Linux system administration and proficiency in Python, Go, or other automation languages. The role focuses on providing scalable, maintainable, and secure infrastructure solutions, specifically managing control planes, ingress, load balancing, and GitOps-style delivery for container platforms within a production environment.

What does a Security Engineer earn?

Median $193000 from 106 postings across 42 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and operate on-premises Kubernetes clusters for security services.
  • Automate cluster build-out, configuration, upgrades, and daily operations.
  • Manage the underlying compute, storage, and networking for container clusters.
  • Harden clusters and workloads using RBAC, policies, secrets, and secure configurations.
  • Respond to production incidents and drive them to a permanent fix.
  • Instrument clusters and workloads to ensure failures are visible before becoming outages.
  • Identify security threats and gaps to ship platform changes that reduce risk.
  • Deliver scalable, repeatable, and maintainable infrastructure solutions.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline or 2+ years of professional experience operating production infrastructure with a high school diploma.
  • Experience operating on-premises Kubernetes in a production environment.
  • Experience with Linux system administration and Python, Go, or another language used to automate infrastructure.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for required Department of State authorizations.
  • Must be willing to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed.
  • Must be able to work onsite as hybrid or remote work is not considered.
  • Production Kubernetes operations including control plane, workloads, networking, storage, RBAC, and upgrades (preferred).
  • Experience with infrastructure as code, configuration management, and CI/CD or GitOps-style delivery onto Kubernetes (preferred).

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