Senior Telemetry Engineer — Distributed Data at Scale

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer, Telemetry for Starlink in Redmond, WA. You will design, build, and operate a high-velocity telemetry platform connected to Starlink hardware, supporting petabyte-scale data ingestion, processing, storage, and queries.

Join a collaborative team solving mission-critical challenges with ownership across software and hardware stacks. The role emphasizes strong software engineering, distributed systems, and Linux/CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

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Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate a highly reliable, distributed telemetry platform capable of ingesting, processing, storing, and querying data at petabyte scale.
• Collaborate with other engineers on architecture, design, and code reviews.
• Partner closely with satellite and rocket teams to understand real mission needs and translate them into elegant technical solutions.
• Take full end-to-end ownership of the complete software and hardware stack.
• Deep dive into business problems, find efficient solutions and apply first principles thinking.

Skills

C#

Java

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Linux

CI/CD

Testing

Version control

Monitoring systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, engineering, math, physics, or scientific discipline; OR 7+ years of professional experience

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Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer, Telemetry for Starlink in Redmond, WA. You will design, build, and operate a high-velocity telemetry platform connected to Starlink hardware, supporting petabyte-scale data ingestion, processing, storage, and queries.

Join a collaborative team solving mission-critical challenges with ownership across software and hardware stacks. The role emphasizes strong software engineering, distributed systems, and Linux/CI/CD practices.