Application Software Engineer, Employee Experience

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Hawthorne, CA
Salary: $125,000–$160,000 / yr
Posted: 21 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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About SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the mission of enabling humans to become a multi-planetary species. It operates the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles, as well as the Starlink satellite internet constellation.

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JOB TITLE: Application Software Engineer, Employee Experience The Application Software Engineer, Employee Experience joins the application software team to develop mission-critical applications that accelerate launch vehicle production and flight operations. You will have full ownership of software engineering and product development, creating new applications to improve operations, building prototypes to prove design concepts, and deep-diving into user problems to find efficient solutions. You will collaborate on architecture, design, and code reviews. The role requires full-stack development experience using languages like Python, C#.NET, Go, Scala, or Java. Technical skills include building single-page web applications with Angular or React, managing databases like PostgreSQL, and utilizing tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, and Terraform. You will solve problems related to Starship build and reuse, manufacturing software for high-throughput factories, and managing large satellite constellations.

Skills

Python C#.NET Go Scala Java Full Stack Development Docker Kubernetes Terraform Ansible Puppet Apache Kafka RabbitMQ ActiveMQ Angular React PostgreSQL SQL Server Make Bazel Pants Buck Gradle pip npm UNIX

What you'll do

Develop highly reliable software solutions used across the entire SpaceX organization.
Create new applications to improve internal operational efficiency.
Build prototypes to prove design concepts and quantify technical constraints.
Own all aspects of software engineering and product development.
Analyze user problems deeply to create and implement efficient solutions.
Participate in team collaborations regarding architecture, design, and code reviews.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional software experience.
1+ years of experience in full stack development.
Programming experience in Python, C#.NET, Go, Scala, Java, or similar object-oriented languages (preferred).
1+ years of rigorous experience building single page web applications (preferred).
Experience with version control, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and software system design (preferred).
Expertise in profiling application performance, testing, build systems, and package management tools (preferred).
Experience with UNIX-like systems, infrastructure tools, in-stream data processing, Docker, Kubernetes, and databases (preferred).
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for Department of State authorization.

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