Data Engineer

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $125,000–$165,000 / yr
Posted: 6 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
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.

SpaceX currently has 851 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $130,000–$165,000 across 590 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Data Engineer

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As a Data Engineer (Starlink Mobile), you will join the Starlink Mobile organization to develop strategies, metrics, tools, and software services for assessing network scaling and effectiveness. You will build and maintain mission-critical infrastructure, automate metric aggregation, and lead technical investigations into chronic application-level issues. Your daily work involves building ground-based software systems to ingest, transform, and store data while fusing information from multiple sources. You will apply data analytics, models, and techniques to data products created by space vehicles. Required skills include experience in analytics, data science, or machine learning, alongside proficiency in SQL and object-oriented programming languages like C, C++, or Python. Preferred experience includes handling large datasets, using Parquet, Kubernetes, Spark, Presto, Flink, or Snowflake, and designing custom ETL pipelines.

What does a Data Engineer earn?

Median $159000 from 203 postings across 58 companies.

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Skills

Python SQL C++ C Spark Presto Flink Snowflake Kubernetes Parquet ETL Machine Learning Data Analytics In-stream Data Processing Anomaly Detection Clustering Analysis

What you'll do

Build and maintain mission-critical infrastructure, tools, and custom software to assess Starlink Mobile growth.
Automate the aggregation of metrics and detection of widespread application issues.
Build ground-based software systems to ingest, transform, and store data.
Apply data analytics, models, and techniques to data products created by space vehicles.
Create data catalogs and tools for internal and external team analytics.
Fuse data from multiple sources to create usable information.
Lead technical investigations regarding chronic application-level issues.

What we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, physics, mathematics, or a STEM discipline.
1+ years of data or software engineering experience, including internship experience.
Experience in analytics, data science, or machine learning.
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for Department of State authorization.
Experience handling large (TB+) datasets (preferred).
Experience using SQL (preferred).
Development experience in an object-oriented programming language such as C, C++, or Python (preferred).
Experience building solutions with Parquet or similar storage formats (preferred).

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