Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Application Software

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Hawthorne, CA
Salary: $165,000–$230,000 / yr
Posted: 123 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 851 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $130,000–$165,000 across 590 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Application Software

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The Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Application Software) joins the application software team to build and maintain mission-critical platforms that accelerate vehicle software delivery, testing, and operations. This role focuses on reducing safety-critical build and test times for Starship while supporting Starlink growth. You will deploy, operate, and scale products, manage infrastructure as code, and use observability tools to monitor application health. Key responsibilities include collaborating with software engineers to design maintainable systems, practicing sustainable incident response, and eliminating performance bottlenecks. Required skills include Python, Linux, and a Bachelor’s degree or seven years of experience. Preferred expertise includes build systems like Bazel, container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, databases such as Postgres, and automation frameworks like Terraform or Ansible to manage large server fleets.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $202800 from 62 postings across 16 companies.

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Skills

Python Linux Docker Kubernetes Terraform Ansible MySQL ClickHouse JavaScript C# C++ Bazel Buck Make Infrastructure as Code Observability vSphere QEMU KVM

What you'll do

Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale mission-critical products and services.
Manage underlying infrastructure as code and use observability tools to monitor application health.
Design and build highly operable, maintainable, and testable systems with software engineers.
Improve the entire software development lifecycle from inception through continuous refinement.
Practice sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.
Provide high-quality end-user support to vehicle software engineers.
Participate in the team’s on-call rotation.
Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks using measurement and creative engineering.

What we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline.
7+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps in lieu of a degree.
3+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks.
Experience with Linux operating systems.
Experience with build systems such as Bazel, Buck, or Make (preferred).
Experience with container and virtualization technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, or KVM (preferred).
Experience with databases, data modeling, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks like Terraform or Ansible (preferred).
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for Department of State authorization.

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