Flight Software Engineer - Full-Stack Impact

Worky; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer, Flight Software, to join our application software team in the United States. You will develop mission-critical applications used across SpaceX to accelerate launch vehicle production and Starlink operations.

You will own software engineering aspects, build prototypes, and collaborate with engineers to design scalable systems supporting Starship, Starlink, and related platforms. This role offers opportunities to impact SpaceX’s ambitious mission.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 2+ years of software development experience.
• Experience with full stack development.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop highly reliable software solutions used across SpaceX.
• Create new applications to improve how SpaceX operates.
• Build prototypes to prove out key design concepts and constraints.
• Own all aspects of software engineering and product development.
• Deep dive into users’ problems to craft efficient solutions.
• Collaborate on architecture, design, and code reviews.

Skills

Python

C#.NET

Go

Scala

Java

SPA development

CI/CD concepts

Software design

Testing & monitoring

Build systems & package managers

Unix/Linux

Kafka/RabbitMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

Frontend frameworks (Angular/React)

PostgreSQL/SQL Server

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline

2+ years of professional software development experience in lieu of a degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Make

Bazel/Pants/Buck

Gradle

pip

npm

Docker

Kubernetes

Apache Kafka

RabbitMQ

ActiveMQ

Git

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer, Flight Software, to join our application software team in the United States. You will develop mission-critical applications used across SpaceX to accelerate launch vehicle production and Starlink operations.

You will own software engineering aspects, build prototypes, and collaborate with engineers to design scalable systems supporting Starship, Starlink, and related platforms. This role offers opportunities to impact SpaceX’s ambitious mission.