Senior Software Engineer — Mission-Critical Space Systems

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Hawthorne, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, vision & dental

401(k)

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Job summary

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to own and evolve mission critical applications that accelerate launch vehicle production and Starlink operations.

You will design high reliability software, collaborate across teams, and deliver systems used in real-time manufacturing and global communications. You will tackle complex problems, own end-to-end software engineering, and influence architecture and code reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline with 5+ years of software development experience or 7+ years without a degree.
• 3+ years of professional experience in full stack development.

Responsibilities

• Develop highly reliable software solutions used across SpaceX.
• Create new applications that improve SpaceX operations.
• Build prototypes to validate key design concepts and constraints.
• Own all aspects of software engineering and product development.
• Deep dive into users' problems to design efficient solutions.
• Contribute to architecture, design, and code reviews.

Skills

5+ years software development

3+ years full stack development

team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science / engineering / math / scientific discipline

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Make

Bazel/Pants/Buck

Gradle

Pip

npm

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Job description

SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to own and evolve mission critical applications that accelerate launch vehicle production and Starlink operations.

You will design high reliability software, collaborate across teams, and deliver systems used in real-time manufacturing and global communications. You will tackle complex problems, own end-to-end software engineering, and influence architecture and code reviews.