Mission-Critical App Engineer for Spaceflight

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an Application Software Engineer to join the team that builds mission critical applications supporting Starship manufacturing, Starlink services, and flight operations. You will own software from design through deployment in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Responsibilities include developing reliable software, prototyping concepts, and collaborating on architecture and code reviews. We value problem solvers who thrive on impact and can work extended hours when needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 2+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience in full stack development.

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 technical constraints.
• Own all aspects of software engineering and product development.
• Deep dive into your users’ problems to find and create efficient solutions.
• Bring your voice to the table in team collaborations on architecture, design, and code reviews.

Skills

Python

C#.NET

Go

Scala

Java

Single page apps

CI/CD

Testing/CI/Build/Monitoring

Performance profiling

Build systems

Package management

Unix-like tools

Kafka/RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL/SQL Server

Education

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

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an Application Software Engineer to join the team that builds mission critical applications supporting Starship manufacturing, Starlink services, and flight operations. You will own software from design through deployment in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Responsibilities include developing reliable software, prototyping concepts, and collaborating on architecture and code reviews. We value problem solvers who thrive on impact and can work extended hours when needed.