Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer 
Location: Bastrop, TX
Duration: 8 Months + Extension
Bill Rate: $72/hour (C2C)
Job Type: W-2, 1099, C2C
Client: To Be Discussed Later
Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, Other

Job Summary:

The Site Reliability Engineer will design, maintain, and improve reliable, scalable infrastructure supporting critical manufacturing operations. The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering fundamentals and experience in infrastructure reliability, system stability, proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, and scalability. This role requires strong problem-solving, communication, and ownership skills to ensure high availability and uninterrupted production operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deploy, upgrade, operate, maintain, and scale compute, storage, and networking for manufacturing systems across Starship, Starlink, Starshield, and Terafab
• Manage infrastructure as code and use observability to provide a complete picture of platform health
• Design for reliability, stability, and scale; find and remove bottlenecks with measurement and engineering
• Practice proactive maintenance: capacity planning, lifecycle management, and reducing toil before it becomes an incident
• Partner with software engineers, manufacturing stakeholders, and site teams to build operable, maintainable systems
• Improve the full lifecycle-from design through deployment, operation, and continuous refinement
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
• Provide high-quality support to manufacturing and engineering users
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders and teammates
• Participate in on-call and travel to sites as needed for deployments, incidents, and cross-site reliability

Basic Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 3+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps in lieu of a degree
• 1+ years of software development experience
• Experience with Linux operating systems

Preferred Skills And Experience:

• Experience with compute, storage, and/or networking infrastructure in production
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar)
• Containers and virtualization (Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM, etc.)
• Databases and data modeling (Postgres, Clickhouse, etc.)
• Ability to translate high-level requirements into implementations from first principles
• Comfort with mission-critical systems and appropriate urgency and care
• Skillful communication with customers, peers, and management
• Comfort operating across multiple sites and manufacturing programs

Additional Requirements:

• Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed
• Must be able to travel to different sites (Hawthorne, CA; Redmond, WA; Cape Canaveral, FL; Starbase, TX)
• Ability to pass Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral