Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure

SpaceX

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Bastrop, TXHawthorne, CARedmond, WACape Canaveral, FLStarbase, TX
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3 days ago
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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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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure

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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What you'll do

  • Deploy, upgrade, operate, and scale compute, storage, and networking for manufacturing systems.
  • Manage infrastructure as code and use observability tools to monitor platform health.
  • Design systems for reliability and scale while identifying and removing performance bottlenecks.
  • Perform proactive maintenance including capacity planning and lifecycle management to reduce toil.
  • Improve the full infrastructure lifecycle from initial design through deployment and continuous refinement.
  • Practice sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.
  • Provide high-quality technical support to manufacturing and engineering users.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and travel to sites for deployments and incident response.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 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 compute, storage, and/or networking infrastructure in production (preferred).
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar) (preferred).
  • Experience with containers and virtualization (Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM, etc.) (preferred).
  • Experience with databases and data modeling (Postgres, Clickhouse, etc.) (preferred).
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for required Department of State authorizations.

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