Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

SR. SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER, PLATFORM INFRASTRUCTURESpaceX 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.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 TerafabManage infrastructure as code and use observability to provide a complete picture of platform healthDesign for reliability, stability, and scale; find and remove bottlenecks with measurement and engineeringPractice proactive maintenance: capacity planning, lifecycle management, and reducing toil before it becomes an incidentPartner with software engineers, manufacturing stakeholders, and site teams to build operable, maintainable systemsImprove the full lifecycle—from design through deployment, operation, and continuous refinementPractice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortemsProvide high-quality support to manufacturing and engineering usersCommunicate clearly with stakeholders and teammatesParticipate in on-call and travel to sites as needed for deployments, incidents, and cross-site reliabilityBasic qualifications:Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 7+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps in lieu of a degree3+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworksExperience with Linux operating systemsPreferred skills and experience:Experience with compute, storage, and/or networking infrastructure in productionInfrastructure 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 principlesComfort with mission-critical systems and appropriate urgency and careSkillful communication with customers, peers, and managementComfort operating across multiple sites and manufacturing programsAdditional requirements:Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as neededMust 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 CanaveralThis role requires you to be onsite. Remote and/or hybrid work will not be consideredITAR 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 View email address on click.appcast.io.