8 days ago
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 observability to measure platform health.
- Design for reliability, stability, and scale while identifying and removing bottlenecks.
- Perform capacity planning, lifecycle management, proactive maintenance, and toil reduction.
- Partner with software engineers, manufacturing stakeholders, and site teams to build operable and maintainable systems.
- Improve systems across design, deployment, operation, and continuous refinement.
- Participate in sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
- Provide support to manufacturing and engineering users.
- Participate in on-call rotations and travel to sites for deployments, incidents, and cross-site reliability.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline, or 7+ years of professional SRE or DevOps experience in lieu of a degree.
- 3+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks.
- Experience with Linux operating systems.
- Experience with production compute, storage, and/or networking infrastructure is preferred.
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet is preferred.
- Experience with containers and virtualization such as Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, or KVM is preferred.
- Experience with databases and data modeling such as Postgres or ClickHouse is preferred.
- Ability to translate high-level requirements into implementations from first principles and operate mission-critical systems.
- Ability to communicate effectively with customers, peers, management, and stakeholders.
- Ability to work across multiple sites and manufacturing programs.
- Ability to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
- Ability to travel to SpaceX sites and pass an Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral.
- Must satisfy applicable ITAR employment authorization requirements.
Benefits
- The role is fully onsite; remote and hybrid work will not be considered.
- Travel is required to sites in Hawthorne, California; Redmond, Washington; Cape Canaveral, Florida; and Starbase, Texas.
- The role includes on-call participation and extended hours or weekends as needed.
- SpaceX is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodation during the application and interview process.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches orbital rockets and spacecraft, and operates Starlink, a global satellite internet network for consumers, businesses, and governments. Its revenue comes from commercial and government launch services (Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy, Dragon cargo and crew to the ISS) and subscription broadband with Starlink hardware and service. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Hawthorne, California, the privately held company serves NASA and commercial satellite operators, building most systems in-house.