Senior Data Platform Engineer for Satellite Internet

Spacex; Hawthorne (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) retirement plan

Medical, vision, dental insurance

Paid vacation & holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a software engineer for the Starlink program to enhance our satellite internet services. You will own and deliver scalable data pipelines and analytics capabilities, collaborating with engineers to solve complex problems and drive mission impact.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in data/software roles, experience with big data, and fluency in modern programming languages. SpaceX offers strong compensation, incentives, and benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, engineering, math, physics, or a scientific discipline; OR 7+ years of professional experience building software in lieu of a degree
• 5+ years of experience in full stack development, software engineering, data engineering, or data science
• Experience with stream processing and big data frameworks is preferred

Responsibilities

• Develop a highly reliable and scalable enterprise data platform enabling ingest, processing, storage, and petabyte-scale queries
• Create end-to-end data pipelines to improve business operations at SpaceX
• Collaborate on architecture, design, and code reviews
• Build prototypes to validate design concepts and constraints
• Own all aspects of software engineering and product development
• Apply first principles thinking to business problems and provide efficient solutions

Skills

Scala

Java

C#

Python

Go

Big data processing

Kafka

Spark

Flink

Grafana

Metabase

PowerBI

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math/Physics or related field

7+ years experience in lieu of degree

Tools

Hive

Delta Lake

PostgreSQL

CockroachDB

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a software engineer for the Starlink program to enhance our satellite internet services. You will own and deliver scalable data pipelines and analytics capabilities, collaborating with engineers to solve complex problems and drive mission impact.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in data/software roles, experience with big data, and fluency in modern programming languages. SpaceX offers strong compensation, incentives, and benefits.