2 months 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 technical support to manufacturing and engineering users.
- Participate in on-call rotations and travel to sites for deployments, incidents, and reliability work.
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.
- 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, including Postgres or ClickHouse, is preferred.
- Ability to translate high-level requirements into implementations from first principles and operate across multiple sites and manufacturing programs.
- Ability to pass an Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral.
- Must satisfy applicable ITAR eligibility or authorization requirements.
Benefits
- The role is fully onsite; remote and hybrid work are not available.
- Travel is required between Hawthorne, California; Redmond, Washington; Cape Canaveral, Florida; and Starbase, Texas, as needed.
- The role may require extended hours and weekends and includes on-call participation.
- The position offers direct impact on factory uptime, throughput, and production scale across SpaceX manufacturing programs.
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.