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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 joins the application software team to manage the compute, storage, and networking infrastructure supporting manufacturing systems for Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab. This role focuses on ensuring factory uptime and production scale by deploying, upgrading, and maintaining mission-critical systems. Key responsibilities include managing infrastructure as code, performing capacity planning, and practicing proactive maintenance to reduce toil. The candidate will use Python, Linux, and observability tools to design for reliability and stability. Preferred technical skills include experience with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM, Postgres, and Clickhouse. The position requires solving complex infrastructure bottlenecks and providing high-quality support to manufacturing and engineering users to ensure the reliability of the hardware production lifecycle.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $204625 from 66 postings across 16 companies.
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, or asylee to meet ITAR requirements.
Python
Linux
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Ansible
MySQL
ClickHouse
JavaScript
C#
C++
Bazel
Buck
Make
Infrastructure as Code
Observability
vSphere
QEMU
KVM