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# Site Reliability Engineer (Application Software)

- **Company:** Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
- **Location:** Los Angeles County, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $125,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Software Applications, C Sharp (Programming Language), Cloud Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Programming, Databases, Linux, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Kernel-Based Virtual Machine, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Quick EMUlator (QEMU), Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Software Engineering, Virtualization Technology, VMware VSphere, Computer Networking Systems, Build Management, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Vertica, Puppet, Terraform, Docker, Golang
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/bd9a8858-9109-4563-b39e-7a5b0d452efc

## About the Role

The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals and a passion for infrastructure: reliability, stability, proactive maintenance, and scalability. You understand the system before you change it, solve hard problems, communicate clearly with stakeholders and teammates, and take ownership of work that manufacturing depends on.

Aerospace experience is not required. We value smart, motivated, collaborative engineers who treat teammates with fairness, respect, and support, and who want to take full ownership of challenging problems to help make humanity multi-planetary., * 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

 * Experience with Linux operating systems

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

 * Programming experience in Python, C#, Go, JavaScript, etc
 * Experience with on premise compute, storage, and/or networking infrastructure in production
 * Experience with both container and virtualization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM, etc.)
 * Experience with databases and data modeling (Postgres, MySQL, ClickHouse, etc.)
 * Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools for managing fleets of servers (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, etc.)
 * 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
 * Ability to work with mission-critical and sensitive systems with appropriate urgency and care
 * Ability to communicate effectively with customers, peers, and management in both formal and informal settings

## Description

* 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