Senior Data Platform Engineer, Pipelines & Analytics

SpaceX; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health/vision/dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Data for Starlink in Redmond, WA to architect and build scalable data pipelines and a robust data platform that ingests, processes, stores, and queries petabyte-scale datasets. You will collaborate across teams to deliver end-to-end data solutions and own core data engineering initiatives.

The role emphasizes ownership, fast iteration, and applying fundamentals to complex data challenges, with SpaceX offering a competitive package and broad

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, engineering, math, physics, or related field; OR 7+ years of software experience
• 5+ years of experience in full stack development, software engineering, data engineering, or data science

Responsibilities

• Develop a highly reliable and scalable enterprise data platform powering ingestion, processing, storage, and query at petabyte scale
• Create end-to-end data pipelines and new functionality to improve SpaceX operations
• Collaborate on architecture, design, and code reviews
• Prototype concepts to validate design choices and constraints
• Own all aspects of software engineering and product development
• Apply first principles thinking to business problems

Skills

Scala

Java

C#

Python

Go

Frontend frameworks

Big data processing

Databases

Grafana/Metabase/PowerBI

Version control/CI/CD

Statistics/ML basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Data/Engineering/Math/Physics

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Flink

Hive/Delta Lake/PostgreSQL/CockroachDB

Grafana/PowerBI

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Data for Starlink in Redmond, WA to architect and build scalable data pipelines and a robust data platform that ingests, processes, stores, and queries petabyte-scale datasets. You will collaborate across teams to deliver end-to-end data solutions and own core data engineering initiatives.

The role emphasizes ownership, fast iteration, and applying fundamentals to complex data challenges, with SpaceX offering a competitive package and broad