1 month ago
Responsibilities
- Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale compute, storage, and networking infrastructure for manufacturing systems.
- Manage infrastructure as code and observability systems to monitor platform health.
- Design for reliability, stability, and scale while identifying and removing bottlenecks through measurement and engineering.
- Perform proactive maintenance, capacity planning, lifecycle management, 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 cross-site reliability work.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or engineering, or 7+ years of professional SRE or DevOps experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least 3 years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks.
- Experience with Linux operating systems.
- Experience with production compute, storage, 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.
- Ability to operate effectively with mission-critical systems, multiple sites, manufacturing programs, customers, peers, and management.
- Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
- Must be able to travel to Hawthorne, Redmond, Cape Canaveral, and Starbase sites.
- Must be able to pass the Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral.
- Must meet the stated ITAR eligibility or authorization requirements.
Benefits
- The role is fully onsite; remote and hybrid work will not be considered.
- The position includes on-call participation, extended hours or weekends as needed, and travel between sites.
- The role supports manufacturing systems for Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab.
- Employment is subject to SpaceX’s equal opportunity policies and reasonable accommodation support.
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.