Job brief: Site Reliability Engineer (High Performance Computing)

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on SpaceX's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (2 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-06.
• The apply link opens boards.greenhouse.io, the address SpaceX's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $125,000 to $195,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Hawthorne, CA
• Posted: 2026-09-23

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Mid level. The posting asks for 2+ years of experience.

Must have

• Aerospace experience is not required. We value engineers who treat teammates with fairness and respect, who are self-critical, and who will take ownership of hard production probl…
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience operating production infrastructure in lieu of a degree
• 2+ years of experience with Linux operating systems in production
• 2+ years of experience operating production infrastructure (servers, services, or networks), including monitoring, debugging, and repairing what you own
• 2+ years of professional experience in SRE, DevOps, or production infrastructure engineering
• Familiarity with HPC clusters, schedulers (Slurm, PBS, LSF), or GPU compute — not required; we will teach this

Conditions

• Must be able to participate in an on-call rotation
• Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed for incidents, cluster bring-up, and time-critical failures
• You may also accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and will be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year.
• employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/…

Main duties

• Participate in the team's on-call rotation; practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
• Manage node lifecycle with infrastructure as code: OS images, firmware, configuration management, kernel and driver stack
• Build observability for both HPC administrators and end users — cluster, node, and storage health for operators, and job/workflow-level signal for the people…
• Reduce toil with automation; split time between operating production systems and writing the software that makes that work smaller
• Sustainably manage resources, including compute and storage

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in California: $181k a year (2,177 listings, 74 employers). This listing is 11% lower.
• Across SpaceX's 2,895 open listings, 60% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How SpaceX hires

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