Site Reliability Engineer, Data Center Infrastructure

Bastrop, TX

Full Time

Posted October 8, 2026

$90k - $134k· Est.

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The application software team is the central nervous system of SpaceX.

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

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