SpaceX
Site Reliability Engineer (Application Software)
About this role
SpaceX seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to build and maintain mission-critical software infrastructure that powers Falcon 9, Starship, and Dragon launches. You'll reduce build and test times for vehicle software, collaborate with engineers to design scalable systems, and ensure reliable operations across SpaceX's aerospace and Starlink platforms.
What you'll do
- Deploy, upgrade, operate, and scale mission-critical products and services supporting vehicle software
- Manage infrastructure as code and implement observability tools to monitor application health
- Partner with software engineers to design operable, maintainable, and testable systems
- Improve the full software development lifecycle from design through deployment and refinement
- Conduct incident response and blameless postmortems while providing support to vehicle software teams
- Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks through measurement and creative engineering
What they're looking for
- Python and Python-based development frameworks
- Linux operating systems administration
- Build systems (Bazel, Buck, Make)
- Container and virtualization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM)
- Infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet)
- Database design and management (Postgres, MySQL, ClickHouse)
- Full-stack development (Python, JavaScript, C#, C++)
- SRE and DevOps practices
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Stock options, long-term incentives, and employee stock purchase plan discounts
- Paid parental leave and 3+ weeks of paid vacation plus 10+ paid holidays annually
- Short and long-term disability and life insurance
- Various discounts and perks
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SpaceX
SpaceX develops advanced spacecraft and satellite systems, including the Starshield government satellite constellation and Starfall re-entry cargo capsule for global delivery. The company is hiring engineers in avionics integration, software test automation, mechanical design, and hardware reliability to validate flight-critical systems and ensure mission success.
- Website
- spacex.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience designing and implementing infrastructure as code at scale—what challenges did you encounter and how did you solve them?
- Walk us through a time you significantly reduced build or deployment times in a complex system—what metrics did you use and what was the impact?