1 month ago
Responsibilities
- Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale compute, storage, and networking infrastructure for manufacturing systems.
- Manage infrastructure as code and observability to monitor platform health.
- Design for reliability, stability, and scale while identifying and removing bottlenecks through measurement and engineering.
- 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 the full lifecycle from design through deployment, operation, and continuous refinement.
- Participate in sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
- Provide support to manufacturing and engineering users.
- Participate in on-call duties 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 3+ years of professional SRE or DevOps experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least 1 year of software development experience.
- Experience with Linux operating systems.
- Preferred experience with production compute, storage, or networking infrastructure.
- Preferred experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
- Preferred experience with containers and virtualization such as Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, or KVM.
- Preferred experience with databases and data modeling such as Postgres or ClickHouse.
- Ability to translate high-level requirements into implementations from first principles.
- Ability to operate with appropriate urgency and care on mission-critical systems and communicate effectively with customers, peers, and management.
- Ability to work across multiple sites and manufacturing programs.
- Ability to work extended hours and weekends as needed, travel to specified sites, and pass an Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral.
- Must meet the stated ITAR eligibility or authorization requirements.
Benefits
- The role is onsite; remote and hybrid work will not be considered.
- Travel to different sites, including Hawthorne, Redmond, Cape Canaveral, and Starbase, is required as needed.
- The role includes on-call participation and may require extended hours and weekends.
- SpaceX is an equal opportunity employer.
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.