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 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 and deployment through operation and continuous refinement.
- Participate in sustainable incident response, blameless postmortems, on-call support, and user support.
- Communicate with stakeholders and teammates and travel to sites for deployments, incidents, and cross-site reliability work.
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 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 and operate appropriately in mission-critical environments.
- Ability to communicate effectively with customers, peers, and management and work across multiple sites and manufacturing programs.
- Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed, travel to designated sites, and pass an Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral.
- Applicants must meet the stated ITAR citizenship, immigration, refugee, asylee, or authorization requirements.
Benefits
- The role requires onsite work; remote and hybrid work are not considered.
- The position includes on-call participation, extended hours and weekends as needed, and travel to sites in Hawthorne, Redmond, Cape Canaveral, and Starbase.
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.