Site Reliability Engineer (Application Software)
SpaceX· Application Software
Hawthorne, CA$125k - $160kfull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
SRE role focusing on building, scaling, and maintaining mission-critical vehicle software tools to accelerate SpaceX's software delivery, testing, and operations for Falcon 9, Starship, Dragon, and Starlink platforms.
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 3+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps in lieu of a degree
- 1+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
- Experience with Linux operating systems
Skills
Required:PythonLinux
Nice to have:Build systemsContainers and virtualization
Benefits
- comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- short & long-term disability insurance
- life insurance
- paid parental leave
- paid vacation and holidays
- paid sick leave in accordance with company policy
- stock-based incentive opportunities and potential discretionary bonuses
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- discounts and other perks
Last updated Jul 29, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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