IT Storage Engineer
SpaceX · Redmond, WA
About this role
**SpaceX — IT Storage Engineer** SpaceX is seeking an experienced storage engineer with deep expertise in enterprise storage platforms. This role supports mission-critical workloads such as simulation, telemetry, and test data processing in performance-critical environments. **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; 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 involving interactions between 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. **Basic Qualifications** - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other STEM discipline with 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. - Strong understanding of storage protocols: NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP. **Preferred Skills and Experience** - 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.
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