Site Reliability Engineer (High Performance Computing)

Hawthorne · 2+ years experience · Onsite · Posted Sep 23, 2026

At a glance

SpaceX HPC is a shared compute platform used across the company for vehicle and structures simulation, machine learning, AI inference, and more.
This role exists to put a real Site Reliability Engineer operating model on these capabilities, including toil reduction, automation, observability, and a sustainable incident process.

Participate in the team's on-call rotation; practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
Manage node lifecycle with infrastructure as code: OS images, firmware, configuration management, kernel and driver stack
Build observability for both HPC administrators and end users — cluster, node, and storage health for operators, and job/workflow-level signal for the people running work on the platform
Reduce toil with automation; split time between operating production systems and writing the software that makes that work smaller
Sustainably manage resources, including compute and storage
Lead capacity planning with users across the company: understand what they will need next, and turn that into a concrete picture of tomorrow's compute and storage
Collaborate with HPC systems engineers and with engineers across all disciplines across the company on operable, maintainable infrastructure

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience operating production infrastructure in lieu of a degree
2+ years of experience with Linux operating systems in production
2+ years of experience operating production infrastructure (servers, services, or networks), including monitoring, debugging, and repairing what you own
Must be able to participate in an on-call rotation
Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed for incidents, cluster bring-up, and time-critical failures
Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State

2+ years of professional experience in SRE, DevOps, or production infrastructure engineering
Experience with monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, or similar)
Experience deploying and maintaining configuration management or infrastructure as code (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, or similar)
Experience writing scripts/code (eg. Python or similar languages) to automate common tasks
Experience with containers (Docker, Podman, Singularity/Apptainer)
Experience with Kubernetes administration for on-premise deployment
Experience with distributed or high-performance storage (VAST or similar), including capacity, performance, and lifecycle management
Ability to communicate clearly with users, peers, and vendors in both incident and design settings

Long-term incentives in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards
Potential discretionary bonuses
Ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
401(k) retirement plan
Short and long-term disability insurance
Life insurance
Paid parental leave
3 weeks of paid vacation
10 or more paid holidays per year

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