Senior Security Engineer, Infrastructure
SpaceX
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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.
SpaceX currently has 854 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $130,000–$165,000 across 591 roles with salary data.
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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.
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Median $193000 from 106 postings across 42 companies.
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