Senior Network Engineer

SpaceX

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On-site
Location
Starbase, TX
Posted
35 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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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.

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TL;DR · Senior Network Engineer

As a Sr. Network Engineer on the Network Engineering team, you will design and operate mission-critical, high-performance data center networks that support internal operations and vehicle fleets. You will lead the architecture of redundant systems while innovating on AI-native operations to monitor network health and detect hardware anomalies. Your daily responsibilities include automating the entire network lifecycle—including provisioning, configuration management, and validation—while troubleshooting complex hardware and software issues across various topologies and protocols. The role requires expertise in Juniper, Cisco, Aruba, Arista, and NVIDIA hardware, alongside experience with Linux networking, kernel systems, high-speed optical modules, and RDMA. You must be an AI-native engineer capable of deploying and looping AI agents to automate device upgrades and optimize performance across the infrastructure to solve critical connectivity challenges for large-scale data center operations.

What does a Network Engineer earn?

Median $147000 from 81 postings across 20 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Architect, design, and deploy highly redundant data center networks for mission-critical operations.
  • Lead end-to-end automation of the network lifecycle including provisioning, configuration management, and monitoring.
  • Develop AI and machine learning tools to monitor network health and detect hardware anomalies.
  • Automate the rapid provisioning and upgrading of network devices and servers.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex networking hardware and software problems.
  • Optimize performance across various hardware, topologies, protocols, and software components.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience designing, operating & automating critical networks.
  • Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee (or eligible for such status) per ITAR regulations.
  • 5+ years of experience with Juniper, Cisco, Aruba, Arista, NVIDIA hardware (preferred).
  • 5+ years of experience automating network configurations & network monitoring (preferred).
  • 5+ years of experience with kernel systems, linux networking, high speed optical modules, and RDMA (preferred).
  • AI native engineer expert at deploying and looping AI agents (preferred).

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