Senior Data Platform Engineer: Petabyte-Scale Pipelines

United States Digital Space LLC; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock-based incentives

Comprehensive health coverage

Job summary

Starlink program is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Platform to build a scalable enterprise data platform and end-to-end data pipelines. You will own architecture discussions and work with engineers to deliver high-impact solutions.

Responsibilities include prototyping, code reviews, and applying first principles to solve complex data problems, enabling faster, more reliable satellite internet services globally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a technical field.
• Strong programming experience in multiple languages listed.
• Experience with big data tools and modern data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Develop a reliable, scalable enterprise data platform at petabyte scale.
• Create end-to-end data pipelines and improve business operations.
• Collaborate on architecture, design, and code reviews.
• Build prototypes to validate design concepts and constraints.
• Own software engineering and product development lifecycle.
• Apply first principles to business problems.

Skills

Scala/Java/Python/C#/Go

Frontend frameworks

Big data processing

SQL/NoSQL databases

CI/CD/Monitoring

Statistics/ML basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/DS/Engineering/Math/Physics or equivalent; or 7+ years experience

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Flink

Hive/Delta Lake/PostgreSQL/CockroachDB

Grafana/Metabase/PowerBI

Git/CI/CD tooling

Job description

Starlink program is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Platform to build a scalable enterprise data platform and end-to-end data pipelines. You will own architecture discussions and work with engineers to deliver high-impact solutions.

Responsibilities include prototyping, code reviews, and applying first principles to solve complex data problems, enabling faster, more reliable satellite internet services globally.