Mission-Critical Full-Stack Application Engineer (Onsite)

SpaceX; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an Application Software Engineer to join the Employee Experience team in Wisconsin. You will own and deliver mission-critical software that accelerates SpaceX manufacturing, Starlink operations, and customer-facing systems.

You’ll work with a diverse group to build scalable applications that power high-throughput factories and real-time data streams. You will collaborate across architecture, design, and code reviews, tackle challenging problems, and own results from idea to

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.
• Experience in full stack development
• 1+ years of experience 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
• Expertise in profiling and improving application performance
• Experience with build systems (Make, Bazel/Pants/Buck, Gradle) and package management tools (pip, npm)
• Experience with UNIX-like operating systems and tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet
• Experience with in-stream data processing (Kafka/RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ)
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Front-end experience in Angular, React
• Database experience with PostgreSQL/SQL Server

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

Full stack development

Python

C#.NET

Go

Scala

Java

Single-page applications

Version control

CI/CD

Software system design

Testing & deployment

Build systems

Unix-like OS

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

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Make

Bazel/Pants/Buck

Gradle

pip

npm

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an Application Software Engineer to join the Employee Experience team in Wisconsin. You will own and deliver mission-critical software that accelerates SpaceX manufacturing, Starlink operations, and customer-facing systems.

You’ll work with a diverse group to build scalable applications that power high-throughput factories and real-time data streams. You will collaborate across architecture, design, and code reviews, tackle challenging problems, and own results from idea to