Join SpaceX as an IT Storage Engineer to build and maintain storage infrastructure for mission-critical workloads.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
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Last verified on the company career page 18 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Design and maintain storage infrastructure
- Administer storage systems
- Monitor and troubleshoot storage performance
- Develop automation and tooling
- Collaborate with compute and networking teams
Must have
- 3+ years of professional IT storage engineering experience
- Experience with enterprise storage platforms
Nice to have
- Experience with client and server hardware/software
- Mid-level experience with DFS administration
- Experience automating infrastructure with Python, PowerShell, or Ansible
Practical constraints
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed
- U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident required
Requirements
- Experience
- 3–5 years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
The IT Storage Engineer at SpaceX is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining a robust storage infrastructure that supports critical workloads such as simulation and telemetry. Key skills include expertise in enterprise storage systems like NetApp and Pure, along with a solid understanding of storage protocols and automation tools. This role is suited for mid-level professionals with a background in IT storage engineering and a strong grasp of networking and virtualization. The position requires collaboration with various teams to ensure alignment of storage strategies with overall system architecture.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze November 6, 2026. Last confirmed on SpaceX's careers page November 6, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at SpaceX: Hawthorne, CA.
- Python appears in 18% of 3395 comparable mid other roles in United States; Ansible appears in 0.5% of 3395 comparable mid other roles in United States.
Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- 3–5 years of relevant experience for this IT Storage Engineer role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Ansible, HPE Alletra, NetApp, PowerShell, Pure Storage, Python.
- What seniority level is this role?
- SpaceX targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this IT Storage Engineer role at SpaceX.
From the original posting
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.
IT STORAGE ENGINEER
SpaceX is seeking an experienced storage engineer with deep expertise in enterprise storage platforms. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in performance-critical settings and is eager to build storage infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads like simulation, telemetry, and test data processing.
The ideal candidate will possess knowledge of both Pure and NetApp storage systems running iSCSI with hands-on keyboard as well as on hardware in an on-premises environment.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design, implement, and maintain storage infrastructure across multiple tiers: high-performance, capacity, archive, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery.
- Architect and operate high-throughput, low-latency storage and support exabyte scale file systems (e.g., VAST,) for simulation, telemetry, and high-concurrency workloads.
- Administer storage systems including NetApp, Pure FlashArray/FlashBlade, Vast, and HPE Alletra.
- Monitor and troubleshoot storage performance across the full stack: hardware, transport (RDMA), and protocol layers.
- Troubleshoot complex issues that require an understanding of the interaction of various protocols and operating systems.
- Manage storage access, data permissions, and access controls across different protocols and operating systems.
- Develop automation and tooling for monitoring, capacity utilization and planning, configuration management, and alerting.
- Define and enforce standards for storage deployment, performance tuning, and operational management.
- Collaborate with compute, networking, and application teams to align storage strategies with system architecture and workload requirements.
- Participate in scheduled maintenance, on-call rotation, and occasional physical installation of hardware.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other STEM discipline and 3+ years of professional IT storage engineering experience; OR 5+ years of IT storage engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience with enterprise storage platforms: NetApp, Pure Storage, Vast, HPE Alletra.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Experience with client and server hardware/software, monitoring tools, enterprise networking, and virtualization.
- Mid-level experience with DFS administration.
- High level of network knowledge.
- Experience automating infrastructure with Python, PowerShell, or Ansible.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to explain complex designs in clear terms.
- Experience collaborating with virtualization teams as an infrastructure engineer.
- Strong understanding of storage protocols: NFS, CIFS/SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
ITAR REQUIREMENTS:
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