CDN Software Engineer for Starlink

InvestedintheMission; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, vision, dental

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Company shuttles

Job summary

SpaceX in Palo Alto is hiring a Software Engineer for the CDN (Starlink) team to design, build, and scale a new Content Delivery Network for the world’s premier satellite broadband system.

You will contribute to robust distributed systems, performance optimization, and real-time operability, participating in architecture discussions and code reviews while shaping future Starlink use cases. SpaceX offers strong compensation, stock options, and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or 2+ years of professional software development experience.
• Software development experience in C, C++, or Rust.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale a new Content Delivery Network (CDN) for Starlink
• Build robust, responsive, and scalable distributed systems.
• Develop tools, visibility, and alerting to diagnose and operate complex systems in real-time
• Design algorithms to optimize hardware utilization and cost efficiency against performance metrics
• Implement systems shaping traffic across multiple CDNs
• Participate in and lead architecture, design, and code reviews
• Develop prototypes and manage experiments for future Starlink concepts

Skills

C

C++

Rust

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or other STEM discipline

Job description

SpaceX in Palo Alto is hiring a Software Engineer for the CDN (Starlink) team to design, build, and scale a new Content Delivery Network for the world’s premier satellite broadband system.

You will contribute to robust distributed systems, performance optimization, and real-time operability, participating in architecture discussions and code reviews while shaping future Starlink use cases. SpaceX offers strong compensation, stock options, and comprehensive benefits.