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Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering (Application Software)

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

About the role

Site Reliability Engineer focused on application software to support SpaceX vehicle software delivery, testing, and operations for Falcon 9, Starship, Dragon, and Starlink. Emphasizes safety, quality, ownership, and collaboration with software engineers to design highly operable, scalable systems.

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

Benefits

  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short & long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • various other discounts and perks
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation & 10+ paid holidays per year
  • paid sick leave pursuant to Company policy
Last updated Jul 29, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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