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Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Infrastructure
SpaceX
Bastrop, USA
Senior · 3+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 2 weeks ago
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RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale compute, storage, and networking for manufacturing systems across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab
- Manage infrastructure as code and use observability to provide a complete picture of platform health
- Design for reliability, stability, and scale; find and remove bottlenecks with measurement and engineering
- Practice proactive maintenance: capacity planning, lifecycle management, and reducing toil before it becomes an incident
- Partner with software engineers, manufacturing stakeholders, and site teams to build operable, maintainable systems
- Improve the full lifecycle—from design through deployment, operation, and continuous refinement
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
- Provide high-quality support to manufacturing and engineering users
- Communicate clearly with stakeholders and teammates
- Participate in on-call and travel to sites as needed for deployments, incidents, and cross-site reliability
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- 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
- Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed
- Must be able to travel to different sites (Hawthorne, CA; Redmond, WA; Cape Canaveral, FL; Starbase, TX)
- Ability to pass Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral
- This role requires you to be onsite. Remote and/or hybrid work will not be considered
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
- SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
- Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should reach out to [email protected].
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Experience with compute, storage, and/or networking infrastructure in production
- Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar)
- Containers and virtualization (Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM, etc.)
- Databases and data modeling (Postgres, Clickhouse, etc.)
- Ability to translate high-level requirements into implementations from first principles
- Comfort with mission-critical systems and appropriate urgency and care
- Skillful communication with customers, peers, and management
- Comfort operating across multiple sites and manufacturing programs
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- ITAR REQUIREMENTS:
About SpaceX
Aerospace & Defense51-200Founded 2002
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