Senior Data Software Engineer - Petabyte-Scale Platforms

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term incentives

401(k) retirement plan

Medical, vision and dental coverage

Paid parental leave

3 weeks vacation and 10+ holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer, Data (Starlink) to advance a petabyte-scale data platform supporting satellite internet services worldwide. You will own data pipelines, collaborate on architecture, and drive end-to-end data solutions with a team of engineers.

Aerospace experience is not required; problem solvers who impact an inspiring mission are welcome. You will work to deliver reliable software, optimize streaming and analytics, and contribute to a fast-paced program that powers

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, 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
• Proficiency in Scala, Java, C#, Python, Go or similar languages
• Frontend experience in Angular, React, or similar JavaScript frameworks
• Experience optimizing in-stream, big data processing and analytics frameworks like Apache Kafka, Spark, Flink, or similar
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, data lakes e.g. Hive, Delta Lake, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB or similar
• Experience with data exploration tools like Grafana, Metabase, PowerBI or similar
• Good understanding of version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment and monitoring
• Good understanding of statistics, machine learning algorithms and frameworks

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/Python

Frontend: Angular/React

Kafka/Spark/Flink

Databases: Hive/PostgreSQL/CockroachDB

BI tools: Grafana/PowerBI

CI/CD/Testing

Statistics/ML

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related field

Tools

Git

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer, Data (Starlink) to advance a petabyte-scale data platform supporting satellite internet services worldwide. You will own data pipelines, collaborate on architecture, and drive end-to-end data solutions with a team of engineers.

Aerospace experience is not required; problem solvers who impact an inspiring mission are welcome. You will work to deliver reliable software, optimize streaming and analytics, and contribute to a fast-paced program that powers