# Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Vehicle Engineering)

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars. PRINCIPAL SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER (VEHICLE ENGINEERING) SpaceX HPC is a shared compute platform used across the company - vehicle and structures simulation, machine learning, AI inference, and more. We support every program at SpaceX to design and operate the worlds most advanced rockets and satellites. This role exists to put a real Site Reliability Engineer operating model on these capabilities and accelerating the world class engineering at SpaceX: toil reduction, automation, observability, and a sustainable incident process. We are looking for a Principal Site Reliability Engineer who wants to own everything from Linux machines and our Infrastructure as Code, storage, and user facing applications - the whole ecosystem as a product, not as a ticket queue. You do not need a prior HPC title. You do need production instincts - you have operated real infrastructure, you write code to delete toil, and you

- **Id**: 3949703
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/spacex-principal-site-reliability-engineer-vehicle-engineering>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bastrop, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-08T22:49:29Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T00:39:46Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5553
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Satellite Communications, Launch Services, Satellite Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 66
- **Name**: SpaceX
- **Domain**: spacex.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/spacex>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 56
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.036
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 97
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **Configuration Management** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Ansible** — Optional: yes
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **CUDA** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Nagios** — Optional: yes
- **Podman** — Optional: yes
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes
- **Puppet** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **PyTorch** — Optional: yes
- **SLURM** — Optional: yes
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T01:18:58Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 97
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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