Senior Site Reliability Engineer
SpaceX
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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 Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure joins the application software team to manage the compute, storage, and networking infrastructure supporting Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab. This role focuses on ensuring factory uptime and production scale by deploying, upgrading, and maintaining manufacturing systems. Key responsibilities include managing infrastructure as code, utilizing observability for platform health, performing capacity planning, and conducting blameless postmortems. The candidate must possess strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with Linux operating systems and Python-based development frameworks. Preferred technical skills include Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM, Postgres, and Clickhouse. The position involves solving complex reliability and scalability problems within a mission-critical manufacturing environment, requiring proactive maintenance to reduce toil and ensure stable operations across multiple production programs.
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