Site Reliability Engineer

About the Role

The Site Reliability Engineer, Data Center Infrastructure team is responsible for the compute, storage, and networking that run SpaceX's factories. This role has a direct impact on 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 monitor platform health.
• Design for reliability, stability, and scale; identify and resolve bottlenecks using measurement and engineering.
• Practice proactive maintenance: capacity planning, lifecycle management, and reducing toil.
• Partner with software engineers, manufacturing stakeholders, and site teams to build operable, maintainable systems.
• Improve the full system lifecycle, from design through operation and 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 rotation and travel to sites as needed for deployments, incidents, and cross-site reliability.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Linux operating systems
• Software development experience
• 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 Linux operating systems.
• 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

• 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.