Site Reliability Engineer (Top Secret Clearance) Verified today

SpaceX · Hawthorne, CA · Production · first seen 2026-07-16

Site Reliability Engineer (Top Secret Clearance)

As a member of the Classified IT Systems Engineering team, you will design scalable systems to support growing volumes of data products. You will build tools that enable efficient workflows and create software systems that are secure, reliable, and autonomous. You own the complete lifecycle of the systems you create, including development, testing, and operational support.

Responsibilities

  • Develop automation to deploy and manage compute resources both on-premises and in the cloud
  • Build, maintain, and scale on-premises hardware systems designed to host GPU-accelerated machine learning workloads
  • Deploy and manage core infrastructure such as databases, monitoring and storage
  • Closely collaborate with software engineers to create highly scalable, operable and maintainable products
  • Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience in software, DevOps, or site reliability engineering in lieu of a degree
  • 1+ year of experience with Kubernetes
  • 1+ year of experience with Linux operating systems
  • Experience in Bash, Python, and/or other scripting languages
  • Experience building, maintaining, and scaling on-premises and/or cloud systems
  • Active Top Secret, Top Secret SCI, or DOE Level Q clearance

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Experience hosting and pushing the state of the art in inferential model benchmarks
  • Experience with systems administration, site reliability engineering, or DevOps engineering
  • Experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
  • Experience with virtualization and hypervisor technologies
  • Experience with automatically managing dozens or hundreds of servers
  • Knowledge of performance bottlenecks and performance improvement techniques
  • Excellent communications skills with the ability to communicate with customers, peers, management etc. in both formal and informal situations
  • Ability to quickly learn new tools and frameworks

Additional Requirements

  • An active clearance may provide the opportunity for you to work on sensitive SpaceX missions; if so, you will be subject to pre-employment drug and random drug and alcohol testing
  • Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed

Compensation

Base salary Level 3: $145,000 to $195,000 annually, determined on a case-by-case basis based on job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.

Those with an active clearance will receive a 10% differential, up to an additional $20,000 annually, once officially briefed into a classified program.

Benefits include long-term incentives in company stock or cash awards, discretionary bonuses, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, 3 weeks of paid vacation, 10+ paid holidays per year, and paid sick leave.

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), Refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.