Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Data Center Infrastructure

Bastrop, TXfull timeRemote

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SpaceX Sr. Site Reliability Engineer responsible for deploying, upgrading, and maintaining compute, storage, and networking infrastructure supporting manufacturing systems across multiple SpaceX programs. This role focuses on reliability, scalability, proactive maintenance, and collaboration with software engineers and manufacturing stakeholders.

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

Qualification

Bachelor’s degree in computer scienceExperience with Linux operating systemsExperience with computeInfrastructure as code (TerraformContainers and virtualization (DockerDatabases and data modeling (PostgresSkillful communication with customers

Required

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

Preferred

Experience with compute, storage, and/or networking infrastructure in production
Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar)
Containers and virtualization (Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM, etc.)
Databases and data modeling (Postgres, Clickhouse, etc.)
Ability to translate high-level requirements into implementations from first principles
Comfort with mission-critical systems and appropriate urgency and care
Skillful communication with customers, peers, and management
Comfort operating across multiple sites and manufacturing programs

Benefits

Flexible Work

Company

SpaceX

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