Site Reliability Engineer
SpaceX · Bastrop, TX
About this role
**SpaceX — Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)** SpaceX is building the technologies to enable human life on Mars. The application software team is the central nervous system of SpaceX—owning the compute, storage, and networking that run manufacturing systems for **Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab**. This role directly impacts **factory uptime, throughput, and production scale**. --- **What you’ll do** - Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale compute, storage, and networking for manufacturing systems - Manage infrastructure as code and use observability to understand platform health end-to-end - Design for reliability, stability, and scale; remove bottlenecks using measurement and engineering - Practice proactive maintenance (capacity planning, lifecycle management, and reducing toil before incidents) - 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 - Support sustainable incident response and run 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 and incidents --- **Basic qualifications** - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline **OR** 3+ years of professional experience in SRE/DevOps in lieu of a degree - 1+ years of software development experience - Experience with Linux operating systems --- **Preferred skills** - Production experience with compute, storage, and/or networking infrastructure - 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 operating mission-critical systems with appropriate urgency and care - Strong communication with customers, peers, and management - Ability to operate across multiple sites and manufacturing programs --- **Additional requirements** - Ability to work extended hours and weekends as needed - Ability to travel to sites: **Hawthorne, CA; Redmond, WA; Cape Canaveral, FL; Starbase, TX** - Ability to pass an Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral - **Onsite role only** (remote and/or hybrid work will not be considered) --- **ITAR requirements** To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be a **U.S. citizen/national**, **U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder)**, **Refugee (8 U.S.C. § 1157)**, or **Asylee (8 U.S.C. § 1158)**, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. --- SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. For reasonable accommodation or to request the Affirmative Action Plan, contact **EEOCompliance@spacex.com**.
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