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Employer
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
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Listed pay typically runs
$130,000–$165,000
across 590 roles with salary data.
The Site Reliability Engineer (Application Software) joins the application software team to build and maintain mission-critical platforms that accelerate vehicle software delivery, testing, and operations. This role focuses on reducing safety-critical build and test times for Starship while supporting Falcon 9, Dragon, and Starlink systems. You will deploy, operate, and scale products, manage infrastructure as code, and use observability tools to monitor application health. Key responsibilities include collaborating with software engineers to design maintainable systems, performing incident response, and eliminating performance bottlenecks. Required skills include Python, Linux, and a Bachelor’s degree or three years of experience. Preferred expertise includes build systems like Bazel, container technologies like Kubernetes, databases such as Postgres, and automation frameworks like Terraform or Ansible for managing server fleets.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $202800 from 62 postings across 16 companies.
Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale mission-critical products and services.
Manage underlying infrastructure as code and use observability tools to monitor application health.
Design and build highly operable, maintainable, and testable systems with software engineers.
Improve the software development lifecycle from inception through deployment and continuous refinement.
Practice sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.
Provide high-quality end-user support to vehicle software engineers.
Participate in the team’s on-call rotation.
Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks using measurement and creative engineering.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 3+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps in lieu of a degree.
1+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks.
Experience with Linux operating systems.
Experience with build systems such as Bazel, Buck, or Make (preferred).
Experience with container and virtualization technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, or KVM (preferred).
Experience with databases and data modeling such as Postgres, MySQL, or ClickHouse (preferred).
Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools and automation frameworks like Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet (preferred).
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for Department of State authorization.
Python
Linux
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Ansible
MySQL
ClickHouse
JavaScript
C#
C++
Bazel
Buck
Make
Infrastructure as Code
Observability
vSphere
QEMU
KVM
Python
Linux
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Ansible
MySQL
ClickHouse
JavaScript
C#
C++
Bazel
Buck
Make
Infrastructure as Code
Observability
vSphere
QEMU
KVM
Python
C#.NET
Go
Scala
Java
Full Stack Development
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Ansible
Puppet
Apache Kafka
RabbitMQ
ActiveMQ
Angular
React
PostgreSQL
SQL Server
Make
Bazel
Pants
Buck
Gradle
pip
npm
UNIX
Version Control