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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.
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The Site Reliability Engineer joins the application software team to manage the compute, storage, and networking infrastructure supporting manufacturing systems for Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab. This role focuses on ensuring factory uptime and production scale by deploying, upgrading, and maintaining mission-critical systems. Key responsibilities include managing infrastructure as code, utilizing observability tools, performing capacity planning, and conducting proactive maintenance to reduce toil. The candidate will partner with software engineers and manufacturing stakeholders to build maintainable systems and participate in sustainable incident response. Required technical skills include Linux operating systems and software development experience. Preferred competencies include Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM, and databases like Postgres or Clickhouse. The role solves the technical challenge of maintaining reliable manufacturing infrastructure.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $204625 from 66 postings across 16 companies.
Deploy, upgrade, operate, and scale compute, storage, and networking for manufacturing systems.
Manage infrastructure as code and use observability tools to monitor platform health.
Design systems for reliability and scale while identifying and removing performance bottlenecks.
Perform proactive maintenance including capacity planning and lifecycle management to reduce toil.
Improve the full lifecycle of systems from initial design through deployment and continuous refinement.
Practice sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.
Provide high-quality technical support to manufacturing and engineering users.
Participate in on-call rotations and travel to sites for deployments and incident response.
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 software development experience.
Experience with Linux operating systems.
Experience with compute, storage, and/or networking infrastructure in production (preferred).
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar) (preferred).
Experience with containers and virtualization (Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM, etc.) (preferred).
Experience with databases and data modeling (Postgres, Clickhouse, etc.) (preferred).
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for Department of State authorization.