Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Infrastructure
Core
Own infrastructure supporting Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab to ensure factory uptime, throughput, and production scale.
Role type
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Platform Infrastructure)
Builds
Compute, storage, and networking systems for manufacturing operations
Domain
Aerospace manufacturing infrastructure
Required skills
Python, Linux, Infrastructure as Code, Containers/Virtualization, Databases, Capacity Planning, Incident Response, System Design
Preferred skills
Compute/Storage/Networking production experience, Terraform/Ansible/Puppet, Postgres/Clickhouse, Multi-site operations
Technologies
Python, Linux, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM, Postgres, Clickhouse
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; Practice proactive maintenance including capacity planning and lifecycle management; Partner with software engineers and manufacturing stakeholders to build operable systems; Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems; Provide high-quality support to manufacturing and engineering users; Participate in on-call and travel to sites for deployments and incidents
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
