Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Vehicle Engineering)

Bastrop, TXfull timeOn Site

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SpaceX Principal Site Reliability Engineer role at SpaceX HPC focusing on managing and automating production infrastructure for vehicle engineering. Responsible for reducing toil, building observability, and leading capacity planning for compute and storage resources.

Responsibilities

Participate in the team's on-call rotation; practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
Manage node lifecycle with infrastructure as code: OS images, firmware, configuration management, kernel and driver stack
Build observability for both HPC administrators and end users — cluster, node, and storage health for operators, and job/workflow-level signal for the people running work on the platform
Reduce toil with automation; split time between operating production systems and writing the software that makes that work smaller
Sustainably manage resources, including compute and storage
Lead capacity planning with users across the company: understand what they will need next, and turn that into a concrete picture of tomorrow's compute and storage
Collaborate with HPC systems engineers and with engineers across all disciplines across the company on operable, maintainable infrastructure

Qualification

Bachelor's degree in computer scienceExperience writing scripts/code (egExperience with containers (DockerFamiliarity with HPC clusters

Required

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience operating production infrastructure in lieu of a degree
8+ years of experience with Linux operating systems in production
8+ years of experience operating production infrastructure (servers, services, or networks), including monitoring, debugging, and repairing what you own

Preferred

8+ years of professional experience in SRE, DevOps, or production infrastructure engineering
Experience with monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, or similar)
Experience deploying and maintaining configuration management or infrastructure as code (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, or similar)
Experience writing scripts/code (eg. Python or similar languages) to automate common tasks
Experience with containers (Docker, Podman, Singularity/Apptainer)
Experience with Kubernetes administration for on-premise deployment
Experience with distributed or high-performance storage (VAST or similar), including capacity, performance, and lifecycle management
Familiarity with HPC clusters, schedulers (Slurm, PBS, LSF), or GPU compute — not required; we will teach this

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SpaceX

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