Mission-Critical Application Software Engineer

Starlink; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Bonuses and long-term incentives

Comprehensive medical/vision/dental

Job summary

SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, is seeking an Application Software Engineer to join a central nervous system of mission-critical applications used to accelerate manufacturing and flight for SpaceX and Starlink. You will own software engineering and work across architecture, design, and code reviews with a team that values fairness, respect, and collaboration.

The role focuses on rapid build and reuse of Starship, manufacturing software for Starlink, and platforms handling vast data streams from

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience building software in lieu of a degree
• 1+ years of 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 Applications

CI/CD

Software design

Performance profiling

Build systems

Terraform/Ansible/Puppet

Kafka/RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

Angular/React

PostgreSQL/SQL Server

Education

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

Tools

Make

Bazel/Pants/Buck

Gradle

pip

npm

Unix/Linux

Job description

SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, is seeking an Application Software Engineer to join a central nervous system of mission-critical applications used to accelerate manufacturing and flight for SpaceX and Starlink. You will own software engineering and work across architecture, design, and code reviews with a team that values fairness, respect, and collaboration.

The role focuses on rapid build and reuse of Starship, manufacturing software for Starlink, and platforms handling vast data streams from