Site Reliability Engineer, Data Center Infrastructure
Bastrop, TX · 1+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 8, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 1+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Bastrop, TX
About the role
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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 operable 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 and travel to sites as needed for deployments and incidents
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 3+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps
- 1+ years of software development experience
- 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 Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral
- Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee to meet ITAR requirements
Preferred qualifications
- 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
Workplace
- This role requires you to be onsite.
- Remote and/or hybrid work will not be considered.
Skills
- Linux
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Puppet
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- vSphere
- QEMU
- KVM
- Postgres
- Clickhouse