Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Application Software)

SpaceX
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 165,000 - 230,000 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Collaboration","Communication","Ownership","Self-motivated"]

Join SpaceX’s application software team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and scale mission-critical tools for vehicle software delivery, testing, and operations across Falcon 9, Starship, Dragon, and Starlink. You’ll own infrastructure as code, observability, on-call duties, and collaborate with software engineers to improve end-to-end reliability and performance in safety-critical systems.

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SpaceX
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Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Application Software)

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Job Summary

Join SpaceX’s application software team as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and scale mission-critical tools for vehicle software delivery, testing, and operations across Falcon 9, Starship, Dragon, and Starlink. You’ll own infrastructure as code, observability, on-call duties, and collaborate with software engineers to improve end-to-end reliability and performance in safety-critical systems.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale our suite of mission-critical products and services
  • •Manage our underlying infrastructure as code and use modern observability tools to provide a complete picture of application health
  • •Closely collaborate with software engineers to design and build highly operable, maintainable, and testable systems
  • •Engage in and improve the entire software development lifecycle — from inception and design through deployment, operation, and continuous refinement
  • •Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 165,000 - 230,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceVisionDental401kEquityPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •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 degree
  • •3+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
  • •Experience with Linux operating systems
  • •Experience with build systems (Bazel, Buck, Make, etc.)
  • •Experience with container and virtualization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM, etc.)
Experience:SpaceAerospaceSREDevOps
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Problem-solvingCollaborationCommunicationOwnershipSelf-motivated
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonLinuxBazelBuckMakeDockerKubernetesVSphereQEMUKVMPostgresMySQLClickHouseTerraformAnsiblePuppet

Company Brief

SpaceX
Designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft for commercial and government customers, aiming to reduce space transportation costs and enable human life on Mars through reusable launch vehicles and integrated space systems.
Industry: Aerospace Manufacturing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Hawthorne, United States
Founded: 2002
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