Site Reliability Engineer - Top Secret Clearance

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

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This role $135k

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This role pays less than 86% of similar roles. Most pay $142,450–$193,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $135k versus about $168k 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.

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

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TL;DR · Site Reliability Engineer - Top Secret Clearance

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As a Site Reliability Engineer at SpaceX, you will join the engineering team to design and develop critical automation and technical infrastructure for high-performance web applications and simulation products. Your daily tasks include deploying and managing cloud and on-premises applications, optimizing Kubernetes clusters with Ansible, and collaborating closely with software engineers to ensure scalable and maintainable systems. You will leverage Python, Bash scripting, and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes while working in a dynamic environment that demands innovative solutions for complex challenges. This role requires strong Linux system administration skills, experience with message queue technologies such as RabbitMQ or Kafka, and proficiency in identity management protocols.

Skills

Kubernetes RKE Ansible Python Docker RabbitMQ Kafka Jinja YAML Helm Bash DevOps CI/CD Linux Terraform AWS Grafana Prometheus

What you'll do

Develop automation for deploying and managing applications both on-premises and in the cloud.
Manage core infrastructure technologies including application servers, databases, messaging queues, and storage.
Install, scale, and optimize Kubernetes and RKE clusters using Ansible in production environments.
Work with software engineers to create highly scalable, operable, and maintainable products.
Engage in the full lifecycle of services from inception through deployment, operation, and refinement.

What we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or 2+ years of professional experience in software, DevOps, or SRE.
1+ year of Linux systems administration and scripting language (Bash, Python) expertise.
Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
Strong understanding of message queue technologies such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.
Focus on performance optimization and bottlenecks identification in software applications.

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