8 days ago
Responsibilities
- Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale compute, storage, and networking infrastructure for manufacturing systems.
- Manage infrastructure as code and use observability to assess platform health.
- Design for reliability, stability, and scale while identifying and removing bottlenecks through measurement and engineering.
- Perform capacity planning, lifecycle management, and proactive maintenance to reduce operational toil.
- 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.
- Conduct 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.
- Communicate clearly with stakeholders and teammates.
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.
- At least 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.
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
- Experience with containers and virtualization technologies 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 carefully and urgently around mission-critical systems.
- Strong communication skills with customers, peers, and management.
- Ability to work across multiple sites and manufacturing programs.
- Ability to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
- Ability to pass an Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral.
- Must satisfy the stated ITAR eligibility or authorization requirements.
Benefits
- The role is fully onsite; remote and hybrid work will not be considered.
- Travel is required between Hawthorne, California; Redmond, Washington; Cape Canaveral, Florida; and Starbase, Texas, as needed.
- The position includes on-call participation and may require extended hours and weekends.
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.