Starlink Global Ops Engineer: Automation & Scale

SpaceX; Redmond; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Long-term incentives such as stock

Stock Purchase Plan

Comprehensive medical/vision/dental

401(k) retirement plan

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Paid parental leave

3 weeks paid vacation

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an Operations Development Engineer for Starlink to engineer the operational systems and processes that scale the network to millions of users worldwide. You will build tools, automation, and workflows to maintain health, reliability and rapid incident response.

Collaborating with software, network, and field teams, you will implement AI tooling, develop end-to-end systems, and own projects from design through deployment, while participating in on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE or ME is required.
• Experience with Python and SQL and automation tooling.
• Experience in NOC/SRE or network operations environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and scale Starlink Network Operations processes, automation, and tools that provide global internet access.
• Design operational workflows from first principles and implement procedures, automation, and tooling.
• Collaborate with development teams to assess impact of changes on operations health and efficiency.
• Interact with stakeholders to identify outcomes and deliver improvements to Network Operations processes.
• Develop monitoring, detection and response processes for quick resolution of events.
• Define projects, milestones and roadmaps with flexible prioritization.
• Own deliverables and make risk-conscious decisions under pressure.
• Design end-to-end operational systems: alerting, detection, triage paths, handoffs and interfaces.
• Build and maintain internal tooling (Python, APIs, orchestration) for live operations.
• Apply AI tooling to production workflows and measure impact on toil and MTTR.

Skills

Python

SQL

Automation

Operations

System design

SDN/NFV

Open-source tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE or ME

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

PostgreSQL

Workflow orchestration

Linux

Git

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an Operations Development Engineer for Starlink to engineer the operational systems and processes that scale the network to millions of users worldwide. You will build tools, automation, and workflows to maintain health, reliability and rapid incident response.

Collaborating with software, network, and field teams, you will implement AI tooling, develop end-to-end systems, and own projects from design through deployment, while participating in on-call rotations.