Site Reliability Engineer, Data Center Infrastructure

Bastrop, TX · 3+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 10, 2026

At a glance

The Site Reliability Engineer for Data Center Infrastructure will manage the compute, storage, and networking systems that support SpaceX's manufacturing operations.
This role focuses on ensuring the reliability, stability, and scalability of infrastructure critical to programs like Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab.
The position involves direct impact on factory uptime and production scale, requiring a proactive approach to maintenance and system design.

Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale compute, storage, and networking for manufacturing systems.
Manage infrastructure as code and use observability to provide a complete picture of platform health.
Design for reliability, stability, and scale by identifying and removing bottlenecks.
Practice proactive maintenance including capacity planning and lifecycle management.
Partner with software engineers and manufacturing stakeholders to build maintainable systems.
Improve the full lifecycle from design through deployment 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 rotations and travel to sites for deployments and incident response.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline, or 7+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps.
3+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks.
Experience with Linux operating systems.
Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
Must be able to travel to different sites including Hawthorne, CA; Redmond, WA; Cape Canaveral, FL; and Starbase, TX.
Ability to pass an Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral.
Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee to meet ITAR requirements.

Experience with compute, storage, and/or networking infrastructure in production.
Infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
Containers and virtualization technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, or KVM.
Databases and data modeling experience with Postgres or Clickhouse.
Ability to translate high-level requirements into implementations from first principles.
Comfort with mission-critical systems and appropriate urgency.
Skillful communication with customers, peers, and management.
Comfort operating across multiple sites and manufacturing programs.