SpaceX
Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering (Application Software)
About this role
SpaceX seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to build and maintain mission-critical software infrastructure that accelerates vehicle software delivery and testing for Falcon 9, Starship, and Dragon missions. You'll work on reducing build and test times for safety-critical systems while ensuring platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across SpaceX's aerospace programs.
What you'll do
- Deploy, operate, maintain, and scale mission-critical products and services supporting vehicle software development
- Manage infrastructure as code and implement modern observability tools to monitor application health
- Collaborate with software engineers to design operable, maintainable, and testable systems
- Optimize the full software development lifecycle from design through deployment and continuous improvement
- Lead incident response, blameless postmortems, and on-call rotation duties
- Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks through measurement and engineering innovation
What they're looking for
- Python and Python-based frameworks
- Linux operating systems
- Build systems (Bazel, Buck, Make)
- Container and virtualization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM)
- Infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet)
- Database 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 with company match eligibility
- Stock options, long-term incentives, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- 3 weeks paid vacation and 10+ paid holidays annually
- Paid parental leave and short & long-term disability 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 a time you reduced build or deployment times significantly; what was your approach and what metrics did you use to measure success?
- How do you approach designing systems that are both highly operable and maintainable, and what collaboration strategies do you use with software engineers?