Full-Stack Engineer for Mission-Critical Aerospace Apps

InvestedintheMission; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer (Application Software) to join the application software team. You will own software engineering and product development, building mission-critical applications used across SpaceX to accelerate production and flight operations.

You will work on web applications and platforms supporting Starship, Starlink, and launches, with opportunities to design, prototype, and optimize systems in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional software development.
• Experience in full stack development.
• Preferred: Python, C#.NET, Go, Scala, or Java; OO language proficiency.
• 1+ years building single-page web applications.
• Experience with version control, CI/CD concepts.
• Expertise in designing software systems.
• Deep understanding of testing, CI, build, deployment & monitoring.
• Profiling and improving application performance.
• Experience with build systems (Make, Bazel/Pants/Buck, Gradle) and package tools (pip, npm).
• Experience with UNIX-like OS and tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet).
• Experience with in-stream data processing (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ).
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Front-end experience with Angular, React, or similar JS framework.
• Database experience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Develop highly reliable software solutions that are used across SpaceX
• Create new applications that improve how SpaceX operates
• Build prototypes to prove out key design concepts and quantify constraints
• Own all aspects of software engineering and product development
• Deep dive into users’ problems to find efficient solutions
• Contribute to architecture, design, and code reviews with the team

Skills

Python

C#.NET

Go

Scala

Java

SPA development

CI/CD concepts

Education

BS in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Make

Gradle

pip

npm

Bazel

Apache Kafka

RabbitMQ

ActiveMQ

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Angular

React

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer (Application Software) to join the application software team. You will own software engineering and product development, building mission-critical applications used across SpaceX to accelerate production and flight operations.

You will work on web applications and platforms supporting Starship, Starlink, and launches, with opportunities to design, prototype, and optimize systems in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.