Senior Data Platform Engineer — Scalable Pipelines

JobCubby; Redmond, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term incentives

Medical, vision & dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid parental leave

Paid vacation & holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform (Starlink) to design and build a scalable data platform supporting petabyte-scale ingestion, processing, storage, and querying across Starlink operations. You will own full-stack data solutions, collaborate on architecture, and prototype innovative concepts.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in data engineering or related fields, strong programming skills, and experience with big data frameworks and modern databases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, data science, engineering, math, physics, or 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

Responsibilities

• Develop a highly reliable and scalable enterprise data platform empowering users to ingest, process, store, and query at petabyte-scale
• Create new functionality and end-to-end data pipelines that improve how the business at SpaceX operates
• Collaborate with peers on architecture, design, and code reviews
• Build prototypes to prove out key design concepts and quantify technical constraints
• Own all aspects of software engineering and product development
• Deep dive into business problems, find efficient solutions and apply first principles thinking

Skills

Scala/Java/C#/Python/Go

Frontend: Angular/React

Kafka/Spark/Flink

Databases: relational & non-relational

Data exploration: Grafana/PowerBI

Version control/CI/CD/Monitoring

Statistics/ML concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Data Science/Engineering

7+ years experience in lieu of degree

Tools

Apache Kafka

Apache Spark

Apache Flink

Hive/Delta Lake

PostgreSQL

CockroachDB

Grafana

PowerBI

Git/CI

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform (Starlink) to design and build a scalable data platform supporting petabyte-scale ingestion, processing, storage, and querying across Starlink operations. You will own full-stack data solutions, collaborate on architecture, and prototype innovative concepts.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in data engineering or related fields, strong programming skills, and experience with big data frameworks and modern databases.