Software Engineer, Starlink Ground Network – Capacity

InvestedintheMission; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options and long-term incentives

Bonuses possible

Medical, vision, dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Shuttle service Seattle ⇄ Redmond

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Software Engineer for the Starlink Ground Network in Redmond, WA. You will own software systems that forecast demand, optimize deployments, and scale the network to serve millions of users while maintaining reliability and cost efficiency.

You will design, build, and run data pipelines, simulation and forecasting engines, and end-to-end software lifecycle processes in collaboration with network engineers and external partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, physics, or a STEM discipline; or 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 1+ years of professional software engineering, data engineering, or related fields.
• Development experience in an object-oriented or systems programming language (C++, Python, Go, Java, C#, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly reliable software for capacity planning, forecasting, and optimization of the Starlink Ground Network.
• Develop scalable data pipelines and backend services that ingest telemetry, inventory, cost, and usage data to produce actionable capacity models and KPIs.
• Create simulation, optimization, and forecasting engines that predict future ground-network needs, identify bottlenecks, and recommend deployment strategies.
• Collaborate with network engineers, operators, software teams, and external partners to close the loop between planning models and real-world performance.
• Own the full software lifecycle: architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and rapid iteration in a fast-changing environment.
• Apply first-principles thinking to deep-dive into capacity, cost, and scaling problems; prototype solutions and quantify technical constraints.

Skills

C++

Python

Go

Java

C#

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or STEM

3+ years software development experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

Spark

Flink

SQL/ Relational DB

NoSQL / Data lakes

Grafana

Metabase

PowerBI

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Software Engineer for the Starlink Ground Network in Redmond, WA. You will own software systems that forecast demand, optimize deployments, and scale the network to serve millions of users while maintaining reliability and cost efficiency.

You will design, build, and run data pipelines, simulation and forecasting engines, and end-to-end software lifecycle processes in collaboration with network engineers and external partners.