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Site Reliability Engineer, GNC

SpaceX· Falcon and Dragon Avionics & Software Engineering
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Hawthorne, CA$125k - $145kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Site Reliability Engineer to operate and scale custom-built, mission-critical GNC tools and infrastructure for SpaceX’s Guidance, Navigation, and Control teams, including on-prem services, HPC workloads, CI systems, data analysis pipelines, and vehicle configuration verification tools.

Responsibilities

  • Deploy, upgrade, operate, and scale a suite of mission-critical GNC products and services
  • Provision and maintain virtual and physical servers
  • Work with SpaceX HPC team to monitor and maintain an HPC cluster consisting of tens of thousands of CPUs
  • Closely collaborate with GNC software engineers to create highly operable and maintainable products
  • Monitoring and incident response for web applications and services
  • Manage the underlying computational infrastructure of GNC in collaboration with IT stakeholders
  • Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services from whiteboard to operational
  • Make data-driven recommendations for future hardware purchases
  • Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems
  • Provide end-user support to GNC engineering for products by becoming an expert on analysis applications and support users in troubleshooting and pointing to features
  • Configure automated deployment pipelines for web apps
  • Develop or improve GNC web apps and tools for better usability, maintainability, and robustness
  • Demo and document new software changes such as operating system upgrades, shared filesystem changes, or major tool rollouts
  • Focus on performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems/IT, engineering, math, or scientific discipline and 2+ years of software development experience OR 4+ years of professional experience building software with site reliability or DevOps in lieu of a degree
  • 1+ years of experience with Linux operating systems
  • 1+ years of experience with Python and Python based development frameworks

Skills

Required:LinuxPython
Nice to have:Docker / Kubernetes / VagrantConfiguration management toolsBuild systems and package managementVirtualization / hypervisorsNetworkingOn-prem infrastructure managementHigh-performance computing / data analysis systemsIncident response / postmortems

Benefits

  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • paid vacation and holidays (3 weeks vacation and 10+ holidays per year)
  • discretionary bonuses and stock-based rewards
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • discounts and other perks
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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