Data Platform Engineer for Starlink

Front Door Defense; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term incentives

Bonuses

401(k) retirement plan

Medical/Vision/Dental

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Sick leave

Job summary

SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, is hiring a Software Engineer, Data to own and scale the Starlink data platform. You will ingest, process, store, and query petabyte-scale datasets, delivering reliable data pipelines for business operations across the organization.

You will collaborate on architecture, design, and reviews, build prototypes, and take ownership of software and product development with a focus on first principles thinking.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, data science, engineering, math, physics, or a related field; OR 2+ years of software experience.
• 1+ years of experience in full stack development, software engineering, data engineering, or data science

Responsibilities

• Develop a highly reliable and scalable enterprise data platform empowering users to ingest, process, store, and query at petabyte-scale
• Create new functionality and end-to-end data pipelines that improve how the business at SpaceX operates
• Collaborate with peers on architecture, design, and code reviews
• Build prototypes to prove out key design concepts and quantify technical constraints
• Own all aspects of software engineering and product development
• Deep dive into business problems, find efficient solutions and apply first principles thinking

Skills

Scala/Java/C#

Angular/React

Kafka/Spark/Flink

Databases (SQL/NoSQL)

Grafana/Metabase/PowerBI

Version control/CI/CD

Statistics/ML concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree or 2+ years

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Flink

Hive

Delta Lake

PostgreSQL

CockroachDB

Grafana

Job description

SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, is hiring a Software Engineer, Data to own and scale the Starlink data platform. You will ingest, process, store, and query petabyte-scale datasets, delivering reliable data pipelines for business operations across the organization.

You will collaborate on architecture, design, and reviews, build prototypes, and take ownership of software and product development with a focus on first principles thinking.