Site Reliability Engineer, GNC

SpaceX

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

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This role $135k
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This role pays less than 77% of similar roles. Most pay $138,987–$202,475 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $135k versus about $171k for comparable roles.

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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.

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TL;DR · Site Reliability Engineer, GNC

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As a Site Reliability Engineer at SpaceX, you will join the Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) teams to maintain and scale mission-critical tools and infrastructure that support vehicle design, trajectory optimization, high-fidelity simulations, software development, and on-orbit operations. Your daily tasks include deploying and upgrading custom-built systems, managing an HPC cluster with tens of thousands of CPUs, collaborating with GNC engineers to enhance product operability, monitoring web applications, and conducting incident response. You will also configure automated deployment pipelines, develop user-friendly analysis tools, and optimize performance across on-prem infrastructure. Proficiency in Python, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and configuration management tools like Ansible is essential, along with experience scaling web applications and managing GPU fleets for high-performance computing systems.

Skills

Linux Python Docker Kubernetes Terraform Ansible Puppet Make Bazel Gradle pip npm TCP/IP PostgreSQL MongoDB CI/CD Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

  • Deploy, upgrade, and scale mission-critical GNC products and services.
  • Monitor and maintain an HPC cluster with tens of thousands of CPUs.
  • Collaborate with GNC software engineers to create operable and maintainable products.
  • Manage computational infrastructure for GNC in collaboration with IT stakeholders.
  • Practice sustainable incident response and conduct postmortem analyses.

What we're looking for

  • 2+ years of systems administration, site reliability engineering, or DevOps experience
  • Expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, and configuration management tools like Ansible and Terraform
  • Strong Linux operating system skills and Python development expertise
  • Experience scaling web applications and optimizing for performance
  • Extensive knowledge in high-performance computing systems and large-scale data analysis

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