Capacity Planning Software Engineer, Ground Network

Front Door Defense; Redmond, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Employee stock purchase plan

Bonuses

Comprehensive benefits package (health

Job summary

SpaceX in Redmond, WA is seeking a Software Engineer to own capacity-planning software for the Starlink Ground Network. You will build models, data pipelines, and services forecasting demand, optimizing deployments and costs across thousands of ground stations and data centers.

You will collaborate with network engineers and software teams to deliver end-to-end capacity solutions, maintain reliability, and iterate rapidly in a fast-changing environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, physics, or a STEM discipline; OR 3+ years of professional software development experience in lieu of a degree (internship experience is applicable).
• 1+ years of professional experience in software engineering, data engineering, or related fields.
• Development experience in an object-oriented or systems programming language (C++, Python, Go, Java, C#, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly reliable software for capacity planning, forecasting, and optimization of the Starlink Ground Network.
• Develop scalable data pipelines, and backend services that ingest telemetry, inventory, cost, and usage data to produce actionable capacity models and KPIs.
• Create simulation, optimization, and forecasting engines that predict future ground-network needs, identify bottlenecks, and recommend deployment strategies.
• Collaborate with network engineers, operators, software teams, and external partners to close the loop between planning models and real-world performance.
• Own the full software lifecycle: architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and rapid iteration in a fast-changing environment.
• Apply first-principles thinking to deep-dive into capacity, cost, and scaling problems; prototype solutions and quantify technical constraints.

Skills

Software engineering

Data engineering

Backend development

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math/Physics or STEM

Tools

C++

Python

Go

Java

C#

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

Spark

Flink

Job description

SpaceX in Redmond, WA is seeking a Software Engineer to own capacity-planning software for the Starlink Ground Network. You will build models, data pipelines, and services forecasting demand, optimizing deployments and costs across thousands of ground stations and data centers.

You will collaborate with network engineers and software teams to deliver end-to-end capacity solutions, maintain reliability, and iterate rapidly in a fast-changing environment.