This role pays less than
71%
of similar roles. Most pay
$138,025–$213,692
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$142k
versus about
$176k
for comparable roles.
Based on 238 similar postings.
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
680 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$130,000–$165,000
across 442 roles with salary data.
Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering (Application Software) joins the application software team to build and maintain mission-critical platforms that accelerate vehicle software delivery, testing, and operations for Falcon 9, Starship, and Dragon missions while supporting Starlink growth. This role involves deploying, upgrading, and scaling products, managing infrastructure as code, utilizing modern observability tools, and performing sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems. The engineer will collaborate with software engineers to design maintainable systems and eliminate performance bottlenecks. Required skills include Python, Linux operating systems, and experience with build systems like Bazel or Make. Preferred qualifications include container and virtualization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, database management in Postgres or ClickHouse, and infrastructure automation tools like Terraform or Ansible. The role addresses the technical challenge of reducing safety-critical build and test times for complex aerospace vehicle software.
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DevOps
Python
Linux
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform
Ansible
Puppet
Docker
Kubernetes
Bazel
Buck
Make
MySQL
ClickHouse
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C#
C++
Observability