Full Stack Software Engineer, Data

SpaceX

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Work type
On-site
Location
Redmond, WAHawthorne, CA
Salary
$125,000–$165,000 / yr
Posted
90 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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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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TL;DR · Full Stack Software Engineer, Data

JOB TITLE: Full Stack Software Engineer, Data (Starlink) As a Full Stack Software Engineer, Data (Starlink), you will join the Starlink program team to develop a highly reliable and scalable enterprise data platform. You will be responsible for building end-to-end data pipelines to ingest, process, store, and query data at a petabyte-scale. Your daily work involves creating new functionality, building prototypes to prove design concepts, and collaborating on architecture and code reviews. The role requires proficiency in languages such as Scala, Java, C#, Python, or Go, along with frontend experience in Angular or React. You will utilize big data frameworks like Apache Kafka, Spark, and Flink, alongside databases like PostgreSQL and CockroachDB. This position solves technical challenges to improve hardware utilization and provide broadband internet access to underserved communities.

What you'll do

  • Develop a reliable and scalable enterprise data platform for petabyte-scale ingestion, processing, storage, and querying.
  • Create new functionality and end-to-end data pipelines to improve business operations.
  • Build prototypes to prove out key design concepts and quantify technical constraints.
  • Own all aspects of software engineering and product development for assigned tasks.
  • Deep dive into business problems to find efficient solutions using first principles thinking.
  • Design and produce software solutions that enable the company to reach goals at a rapid pace.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, engineering, math, physics, or scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional software experience.
  • 1+ years of experience in full stack development, software engineering, data engineering, or data science.
  • Programming experience in Scala, Java, C#, Python, Go or similar languages (preferred).
  • Frontend experience in Angular, React, or similar JavaScript frameworks (preferred).
  • Experience optimizing in-stream, big data processing and analytics frameworks like Apache Kafka, Spark, Flink, or similar (preferred).
  • Experience with relational and non-relational databases, data lakes e.g. Hive, Delta Lake, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB or similar (preferred).
  • Experience with data exploration tools like Grafana, Metabase, PowerBI or similar (preferred).
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for required export authorizations.

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