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Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (Application Software) at SpaceX

Department: Application SoftwareEducation: education_required

Compensation

$165,000 – $230,000/yr

Location
Hawthorne, California
Type
Full-time
Level
senior
Posted

Description

SpaceX is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build, operate, and scale mission-critical application software and infrastructure supporting Falcon 9, Starship, Dragon, and Starlink operations. The role focuses on infrastructure as code, observability, software development lifecycle improvements, incident response, performance optimization, and end-user support, with a team on-call rotation. Candidates need a relevant bachelor’s degree or 7+ years of SRE/DevOps experience, at least 3 years of Python experience, and Linux experience; aerospace experience is not required. The position pays $165,000–$230,000 per year and includes medical, vision, dental, retirement, disability, life, paid leave, and other benefits.

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