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Aerospace, Space Exploration, Telecommunications, Manufacturing

Site Reliability Engineer (Manufacturing Infrastructure)

Bastrop, TXHybridFull TimeEntry-level (exp-based)Posted 2 months ago

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Required skills

SRE
DevOps
Linux
compute
storage
networking
manufacturing systems
infrastructure as code
observability
reliability

Nice to have

Terraform
Ansible
Puppet
Docker
Kubernetes
vSphere

Role summary

SpaceX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to manage and scale the critical compute, storage, and networking infrastructure that powers their manufacturing operations for programs like Starship, Starlink, and Terafab. This role directly impacts factory uptime and production scale. The ideal candidate possesses strong software engineering fundamentals and a passion for infrastructure reliability, stability, and scalability. Responsibilities include deploying, operating, and maintaining systems using infrastructure as code and observability, designing for resilience, practicing proactive maintenance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure operable and maintainable systems. The position requires participation in on-call rotations and travel to various SpaceX sites.

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER (MANUFACTURING INFRASTRUCTURE)

The application software team is the central nervous system of SpaceX. Manufacturing is how SpaceX turns designs into hardware. The compute, storage, and networking that run our factories must be as reliable as the products we build. This team owns infrastructure supporting Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab. This position will have a direct impact on factory uptime, throughput, and production scale across programs.

The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals and a passion for infrastructure: reliability, stability, proactive maintenance, and scalability. You understand the system before you change it, solve hard problems, communicate clearly with stakeholders and teammates, and take ownership of work that manufacturing depends on.

Aerospace experience is not required. We value smart, motivated, collaborative engineers who treat teammates with fairness, respect, and support, and who want to take full ownership of challenging problems to help make humanity multi-planetary.

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

BASIC 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 software development experience

Experience with Linux operating systems

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

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

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed

Must be able to travel to different sites (Hawthorne, CA; Redmond, WA; Cape Canaveral, FL; Starbase, TX)

Ability to pass Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral

This role requires you to be onsite. Remote and/or hybrid work will not be considered

ITAR REQUIREMENTS:

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should reach out to EEOCompliance@spacex.com.

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