Hiring: Production Engineer, Site Reliability (Application Software) Company: SpaceX Location: Hawthorne, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:23:39 Target Skills & Keywords : Ansible, Bazel, Buck, C#, C++, ClickHouse, Docker, IaC, Infrastructure as Code, JavaScript, Kubernetes, Linux, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Puppet, Python, Terraform About the job Experience: •Knowledge of the technologies that predate and underpin modern cloud infrastructure, with the ability to translate high-level developer experiences into specific implementations from first principles •Demonstrated capacity to work with mission-critical and sensitive systems with appropriate urgency and care •Demonstrated capacity to communicate effectively with customers, peers, and management in both formal and informal settings Required Skills: •Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale our suite of mission-critical products and services •Manage our underlying infrastructure as code and use modern observability tools to provide a complete picture of application health •Closely collaborate with software engineers to design and build highly operable, maintainable, and testable systems •Engage in and improve the entire software development lifecycle — from inception and design through deployment, operation, and continuous refinement •Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems •Provide high-quality end-user support to vehicle software engineers •Participate in the team’s on-call rotation •Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks using measurement and creative engineering Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 3+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps in lieu of a degree •1+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks •Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed •To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. •1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. •1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here. Compensation: •$125,000 - $160,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!