Site Reliability Engineer, HPC & Automation

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $125,000–$150,000 / yr
Posted: today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Below market

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This role $138k

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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 657 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $130,000–$160,000 across 483 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Site Reliability Engineer, HPC & Automation

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Join the Silicon Engineering team as a Site Reliability Engineer, where you will design and operate high-performance computing infrastructure for developing chips that power global satellite constellations. Your daily tasks include deploying and scaling clusters, automating silicon simulation workflows to speed up project timelines, managing infrastructure as code, operating CI/CD pipelines, and identifying performance bottlenecks. You’ll work with technologies such as Bash, Python, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Grafana, Prometheus, Jenkins, and various ASIC design tools. This role demands strong experience in system administration, high-performance computing, and a passion for improving infrastructure efficiency at scale.

Skills

Python Bash Linux Docker Kubernetes PostgreSQL MySQL Terraform Ansible Puppet Grafana Prometheus Jenkins Slurm NFS REST NetAppONTAP Cadence Synopsys Ansys Siemens CI/CD

What you'll do

Deploy, upgrade, and maintain high performance computing clusters and services.
Develop automated solutions for silicon simulation workflows to speed up project timelines.
Use modern observability tools to manage infrastructure health and provide comprehensive monitoring.
Operate continuous integration pipelines, build systems, and version control across the environment.
Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks in the system through measurement and engineering.

What we're looking for

1+ years of development experience with Bash, Python, and other programming languages.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience.
Experience with Linux operating systems and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
Knowledge in high performance computing, workload managers (Slurm, LSF), and automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible).
Ability to manage infrastructure as code and build monitoring and alerting solutions.

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