Full Stack Software Engineer, Employee Experience

SpaceX

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Work type
On-site
Location
Hawthorne, CA
Salary
$125,000–$160,000 / yr
Posted
24 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

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This role $142k
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This role pays less than 85% of similar roles. Most pay $175,000–$214,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $142k versus about $195k for comparable roles.

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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 680 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $130,000–$165,000 across 442 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Full Stack Software Engineer, Employee Experience

Full Stack Software Engineer, Employee Experience joins the application software team to develop mission-critical systems that accelerate launch vehicle production and manage satellite networks. This role involves owning all aspects of software engineering and product development, including building prototypes to prove design concepts, diving into user problems to create efficient solutions, and participating in architecture and code reviews. The engineer will work with tools such as Python, C#.NET, Go, Scala, or Java, while utilizing front-end frameworks like Angular or React. Technical requirements include experience with single page web applications, version control, CI/CD pipelines, and build systems like Make or Bazel. Additional expertise includes Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and in-stream data processing via Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ. The work focuses on manufacturing software for high throughput factories and platforms managing concurrent data streams from large satellite constellations.

What you'll do

  • Develop highly reliable software solutions used across various SpaceX operations.
  • Create new applications to improve internal operational efficiency and manufacturing processes.
  • Build prototypes to validate design concepts and quantify technical constraints.
  • Take full ownership of all aspects of software engineering and product development.
  • Analyze user problems deeply to engineer and implement efficient technical solutions.
  • Participate in team collaborations regarding system 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.
  • At least 1 year of experience in full stack development.
  • Programming experience in Python, C#.NET, Go, Scala, Java, or similar object-oriented languages (preferred).
  • At least 1 year of experience building single page web applications (preferred).
  • Experience with version control, CI/CD, and software system design (preferred).
  • Expertise in testing, deployment, monitoring, performance profiling, and build systems like Make or Bazel (preferred).
  • Experience with UNIX-like operating systems, infrastructure tools like Terraform, and container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes (preferred).
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, or eligible for required export control authorizations.

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