IT Storage Engineer

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SpaceX The IT Storage Engineer at SpaceX designs, implements, and maintains enterprise storage infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads. The role requires expertise in Pure and NetApp storage systems and involves troubleshooting, automation, and collaboration with multiple teams.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain storage infrastructure across multiple tiers: high-performance, capacity, archive, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery.
Architect and operate high-throughput, low-latency storage and support exabyte scale file systems (e.g., VAST,) for simulation, telemetry, and high-concurrency workloads.
Administer storage systems including NetApp, Pure FlashArray/FlashBlade, Vast, and HPE Alletra.
Monitor and troubleshoot storage performance across the full stack: hardware, transport (RDMA), and protocol layers.
Troubleshoot complex issues that require an understanding of the interaction of various protocols and operating systems.
Manage storage access, data permissions, and access controls across different protocols and operating systems.
Develop automation and tooling for monitoring, capacity utilization and planning, configuration management, and alerting.
Define and enforce standards for storage deployment, performance tuning, and operational management.
Collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams to align storage strategies with system architecture and workload requirements.
Participate in scheduled maintenance, on-call rotation, and occasional physical installation of hardware.

Qualification

Bachelor's degree in computer scienceHigh level of network knowledgeADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Required

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other STEM discipline and 3+ years of professional IT storage engineering experience; OR 5+ years of IT storage engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
Experience with enterprise storage platforms: NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, HPE Alletra.

Preferred

Experience with client and server hardware/software, monitoring tools, enterprise networking, and virtualization.
Mid-level experience with DFS administration.
High level of network knowledge.
Experience automating infrastructure with Python, PowerShell, or Ansible.
Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to explain complex designs in clear terms.
Experience collaborating with virtualization teams as an infrastructure engineer.
Strong understanding of storage protocols: NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP.
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