Site Reliability Engineer (Application Software)

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Hawthorne, CA
Salary: $125,000–$145,000 / yr
Posted: today

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Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $135k

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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 604 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $130,000–$155,000 across 440 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Site Reliability Engineer (Application Software)

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Join SpaceX as a Site Reliability Engineer on the application software team, where you will play a pivotal role in accelerating vehicle software delivery and testing for missions involving Falcon 9, Starship, and Dragon. Your daily tasks include deploying and scaling mission-critical systems, managing infrastructure as code, collaborating with software engineers to build robust platforms, and providing high-quality support to end users. You’ll work with Python, JavaScript, C#, and other technologies while leveraging tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and various databases. This role demands a strong SRE mindset, experience in observability tools, and the ability to handle mission-critical systems with precision and urgency.

Skills

Python Docker Kubernetes Terraform PostgreSQL Bazel Ansible Puppet Linux CI/CD Prometheus Grafana JavaScript C# C++

What you'll do

Deploy, upgrade, and maintain mission-critical products and services.
Manage infrastructure as code and use observability tools for application health monitoring.
Design and build highly operable, maintainable, and testable systems with software engineers.
Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks through measurement and creative engineering.
Provide high-quality end-user support to vehicle software engineers.

What we're looking for

1+ year of experience with Python and related development frameworks.
Experience deploying, managing, and scaling mission-critical products using modern observability tools.
Proficiency in build systems (Bazel, Buck, Make) and container/virtualization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
Knowledge of databases and data modeling techniques (Postgres, MySQL, ClickHouse).
Expertise with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet for server management.
Strong ability to work effectively in a high-pressure environment with mission-critical systems.

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