Senior Data Platform Engineer, Starlink

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term incentives

Medical, vision, dental

401(k) plan

Paid vacation & holidays

Job summary

SpaceX seeks a Sr. Software Engineer for the Data Platform on the Starlink program in the United States. You will own end-to-end data pipelines, design scalable ingestion and query systems, and collaborate across teams to enable a fast, reliable satellite internet platform.

This role emphasizes hard problem solving, ownership, and applying first principles to improve systems that serve millions of users globally. Significant engineering impact awaits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, data science, engineering, math, physics, or similar field or 7+ years of software experience in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ years in full stack development, software engineering, data engineering, or data science.

Responsibilities

• Develop a highly reliable and scalable enterprise data platform for petabyte-scale ingestion, processing, storage, and queries.
• Create new functionality and end-to-end data pipelines to improve SpaceX operations.
• Collaborate on architecture, design, and code reviews.
• Own all aspects of software engineering and product development.
• Deep dive into business problems and apply first principles to solutions.

Skills

Scala

Java

Python

Go

C#

Frontend JS

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Grafana

Metabase

PowerBI

PostgreSQL

Hive

Delta Lake

CockroachDB

Job description

SpaceX seeks a Sr. Software Engineer for the Data Platform on the Starlink program in the United States. You will own end-to-end data pipelines, design scalable ingestion and query systems, and collaborate across teams to enable a fast, reliable satellite internet platform.

This role emphasizes hard problem solving, ownership, and applying first principles to improve systems that serve millions of users globally. Significant engineering impact awaits.