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Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Application Software)

SpaceX· Application Software
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Hawthorne, CA$165k - $230kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on application software platforms that support vehicle software delivery, testing, and operations for Falcon 9, Starship, Dragon missions, and Starlink. Emphasizes safety, quality, and ownership of challenging problems, with tools and automation to accelerate build, test, and deployment cycles.

Responsibilities

  • Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale our suite of mission-critical products and services
  • Manage our underlying infrastructure as code and use modern observability tools to provide a complete picture of application health
  • Closely collaborate with software engineers to design and build highly operable, maintainable, and testable systems
  • Engage in and improve the entire software development lifecycle — from inception and design through deployment, operation, and continuous refinement
  • Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
  • Provide high-quality end-user support to vehicle software engineers
  • Participate in the team’s on-call rotation
  • Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks using measurement and creative engineering

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 7+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps in lieu of a degree
  • 3+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
  • Experience with Linux operating systems

Skills

Required:Communication
Nice to have:Build systems and automationContainerization and virtualizationDatabases and data modelingInfrastructure as codeAutomation frameworksCloud infrastructure fundamentalsFull-stack development exposure

Benefits

  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short & long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • paid vacation (3 weeks)
  • 10+ paid holidays per year
  • paid sick leave as per company policy
  • discounts and perks
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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