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Production Engineer, Site Reliability (Application Software)

SpaceX· Application Software
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Hawthorne, CA$125k - $160kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Site Reliability Engineer focused on building and maintaining mission-critical tools and platforms to accelerate vehicle software delivery, testing, and operations for Falcon 9, Starship, Dragon, and Starlink. Emphasizes safety, quality, and ownership of challenging problems with a strong SRE mindset.

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 systemsContainer and virtualization technologiesDatabases and data modelingInfrastructure as codeTerraform, Ansible, PuppetFull-stack development

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) and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • Employee stock purchase plan and potential discretionary bonuses
  • Stock options or long-term incentives (subject to eligibility)
Last updated Aug 12, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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