7 days 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.
- Perform capacity planning, lifecycle management, and proactive maintenance to reduce operational toil.
- Partner with software engineers, manufacturing stakeholders, and site teams to build operable systems.
- Improve systems across the design, deployment, operation, and continuous-refinement lifecycle.
- Participate in incident response, blameless postmortems, on-call coverage, and user support.
- Travel to sites as needed for deployments, incidents, and cross-site 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.
- Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
- Experience with containers and virtualization such as Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, or KVM.
- 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 across multiple sites and manufacturing programs and communicate effectively with customers, peers, stakeholders, and management.
- Ability to pass the Air Force background check required for Cape Canaveral.
- Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed and travel to different sites.
- Must meet applicable ITAR eligibility or authorization requirements.
Benefits
- The role is onsite; remote and hybrid work are not considered.
- Travel is required to sites in Hawthorne, California; Redmond, Washington; Cape Canaveral, Florida; and Starbase, Texas.
- The role includes on-call participation and may require extended hours and weekends.
- Employment is governed by SpaceX’s equal opportunity policy.
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Site 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.