Job brief: Site Reliability Engineer (Infrastructure, Virtualization, & Compute)

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 2026-11-05 (2 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-07.
• 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: Not published
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Memphis, TN
• Posted: 2026-11-05

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

Level: Entry level. The posting asks for 1+ years of experience.

Must have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a STEM discipline and 1+ years of systems engineering experience; OR 3+ years of systems engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
• Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
• Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S.
• § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S.

Conditions

• Experience deploying and supporting Linux servers in physical and virtualized environments (e.g. VMware via automation).
• 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

• Design, install, operate, scale, and optimize enterprise compute, virtualization, and storage platforms, including hypervisor clusters, purpose-built servers…
• Work with SpaceX engineers to gather requirements and to design, deploy, and support resilient, high-performance systems for engineering, production, and mis…
• Perform capacity planning and performance engineering, and implement high-availability, backup, replication, and disaster recovery for virtual machines, data…
• Install, configure, patch, and decommission servers, hypervisor hosts, and storage systems, and contribute to hardware and platform standards.
• Automate provisioning, patching, and day-to-day operations with scripting, templates, and infrastructure as code to reduce toil.

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in Memphis, TN: $137k a year (6 listings, 2 employers). This listing does not publish pay to compare.
• Across SpaceX's 2,898 open listings, 59% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How SpaceX hires

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