Site Reliability Engineer, Data Center Infrastructure
SpaceX· Application Software
Hawthorne, CA, Redmond, WA, Cape Canaveral, FL, Starbase, TXfull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on data center infrastructure supporting SpaceX manufacturing programs (Starship, Starlink, Starshield, Terafab). Responsible for deploying, scaling, and maintaining compute, storage, and networking; building scalable, observable, and reliable systems; and collaborating with software engineering and site teams to ensure factory uptime and throughput.
Responsibilities
- Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale compute, storage, and networking for manufacturing systems across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab
- Manage infrastructure as code and use observability to provide a complete picture of platform health
- Design for reliability, stability, and scale; find and remove bottlenecks with measurement and engineering
- Practice proactive maintenance: capacity planning, lifecycle management, and reducing toil before it becomes an incident
- Partner with software engineers, manufacturing stakeholders, and site teams to build operable, maintainable systems
- Improve the full lifecycle—from design through deployment, operation, and continuous refinement
- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
- Provide high-quality support to manufacturing and engineering users
- Communicate clearly with stakeholders and teammates
- Participate in on-call and travel to sites as needed for deployments, incidents, and cross-site reliability
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:PythonLinux
Nice to have:Infrastructure as CodeContainers and virtualizationObservabilityCommunication
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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