Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

About the Role

The Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Infrastructure role supports the compute, storage, and networking that run SpaceX's factories. This position directly impacts factory uptime, throughput, and production scale across programs including Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab.

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale compute, storage, and networking for manufacturing systems.
• Manage infrastructure as code and use observability to provide a complete picture of platform health.
• Design for reliability, stability, and scale; find and remove bottlenecks with measurement and engineering.
• Practice proactive maintenance: capacity planning, lifecycle management, and reducing toil before it becomes an incident.
• Partner with software engineers, manufacturing stakeholders, and site teams to build operable, maintainable systems.
• Improve the full lifecycle—from design through deployment, operation, and continuous refinement.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Provide high-quality support to manufacturing and engineering users.
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders and teammates.
• Participate in on-call and travel to sites as needed for deployments, incidents, and cross-site reliability.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Linux operating systems
• Infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Puppet)
• Containers and virtualization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM)
• Databases and data modeling (e.g., Postgres, Clickhouse)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 3+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps in lieu of a degree.
• 1+ years of software development experience.
• Experience with compute, storage, and/or networking infrastructure in production.
• Ability to translate high-level requirements into implementations from first principles.
• Comfort with mission-critical systems and appropriate urgency and care.
• Skillful communication with customers, peers, and management.
• Comfort operating across multiple sites and manufacturing programs.

Additional Requirements

• Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
• Must be able to travel to different sites (Hawthorne, CA; Redmond, WA; Cape Canaveral, FL; Starbase, TX).
• Ability to pass Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral.
• This role requires you to be onsite. Remote and/or hybrid work will not be considered.

ITAR Requirements

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.