Sr. IT Windows Engineer

The job

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Job description

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.

SR. IT WINDOWS ENGINEER

SpaceX is looking for an experienced engineer with deep knowledge and broad experience across Microsoft-based technologies. This employee will be a member of the Information Technology Windows Infrastructure team and will support systems all across SpaceX. The ideal candidate will be flexible and flourish in a fast paced and challenging environment, and will exercise a high degree of responsibility for the processes, systems, and tools you create and manage; all supporting the goal of making humanity an interplanetary species.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work closely with other SpaceX engineers to gather requirements, research, evaluate, design, plan, deploy, and support Microsoft enterprise software platforms and related technologies in a world-class environment that meets the needs of the demanding SpaceX engineering teams.
• Build highly-resilient, high-performance, scalable, and flexible systems.
• Make recommendations, justify, and implement improvements using an accepted change control methodology.
• Work within diverse groups to design and deliver creative solutions and resolve problems in a timely and proactive manner by interacting with internal business units.
• Drive designs, implementations, and support in the following areas:
  • Architecture: making considerations for interoperability, scale, efficiency, and business continuity for users within and across environments.
  • Security: building PKI standards and ensuring access and data is protected. KMS, HSM, certificate management, encryption methods, etc.
  • Scripting and automation: developing solutions to address issues at scale.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a STEM discipline and 5+ years of systems engineering experience; OR 7+ years of systems engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with Windows operating system engineering and architecture.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with Active Directory, Kerberos, and multi-platform authentication and identification environments.
• Experience (including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot) with Windows-based systems and services (i.e. Active Directory Certificate Services, Active Directory Federation Services in both physical and virtual environments).
• Experience with cryptography fundamentals: PKI standards, data encryption or key management.
• Expertise in creating repeatable, reliable, scalable systems architectures, with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and statistics/metrics collection.
• Expert level PowerShell experience; beyond running cmdlets, experience with writing larger scripts and automation-driven processes.
• Experience in building robust monitoring and automated remediation services for critical systems (SCOM, Icinga, or equivalent).
• Experience with hybrid scenarios with EntraID and Active Directory.
• Experience with configuration management, provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and other DevOps and/or SRE best practices, concepts and tools.
• Ability to support deployment of HSMs and cryptographic solutions.
• Understanding of developing web and C#/. Net applications and build processes.
• Networking experience in IPv4, switching, routing, firewalls and high availability architecture.
• Comfortable working with mission critical and sensitive systems, with a sense of urgency appropriate to the responsibilities.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate with internal/external customers, vendors, management etc. in both formal and informal situations.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.

ITAR REQUIREMENTS:

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.  

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; 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/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should reach out to EEOCompliance@spacex.com. 

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How Brownsville compares. Among the 120 largest places in Texas, Brownsville is #18 by population, #3 for rent (#1 = cheapest), #114 for household income (#1 = highest), #14 for long commutes (#1 = fewest). Its county, Cameron County, is #231 of 254 counties for average pay ($44,590).

The place in numbers

Brownsville has 189,177 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 0.6% of the population of Texas. It covers 133 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 1,418 people per square mile. The median age is 31.2, 12% younger than the state median (31.2 against 35.6).

Housing

The median gross rent is $923 a month (rent plus utilities), 34% below the state median ($923 against $1,403). Over a year that is 21.2% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $139,900, which is 2.7 times the median household income ($52,130); a ratio under 4 usually means ownership is within reach for many households. 61.7% of households own their home, about the same as the state average (61.7% against 62.6%).

Work and pay

The Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metropolitan area has 157,450 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $36,490 a year, 28% below the national median ($36,490 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are healthcare support (26,080 jobs, median $24,960); office and administrative support (20,010 jobs, median $37,510); food preparation and serving related (16,940 jobs, median $24,110). The area is most specialised in healthcare support (3.3 times) and educational instruction and library (1.3 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($81,410) and healthcare practitioners and technical ($74,760). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Cameron County was 5.9%. 59.4% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Cameron County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 74.9% drive alone, 0.7% use public transit, 1.3% walk, 8.4% work from home. 7.2% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 58% below the state average (7.2% against 16.9%).

People and education

24.5% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 27% below the state share (24.5% against 33.8%). 27.5% of residents were born outside the United States, 57% above the state share (27.5% against 17.6%). The poverty rate is 23.7%, 72% above the state rate (23.7% against 13.8%).

Climate

The warmest month is Aug, averaging 86°F (29.9°C), and the coolest is Jan at 62°F (16.9°C). About 646 mm (25 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Sep is the wettest month (144 mm) and Feb the driest (22 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

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Median rent in Brownsville is $923 a month and median household income $52,130 (ACS 2020–2024).

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