Platform Engineer, Flight Software (Starlink)

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $125,000–$145,000 / yr
Posted: today

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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 · Platform Engineer, Flight Software (Starlink)

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As a Platform Engineer on the Starlink flight software team, you will focus on enhancing developer efficiency and streamlining the deployment of both ground and satellite software. Your daily tasks include maintaining code generation tooling for flight software and GNC engineers, optimizing core shared features across various satellite products, and identifying and resolving inefficiencies in embedded software development processes. You will also collaborate with ground software teams to simplify constellation operations and develop tools that ensure fast, accurate, and user-friendly systems. The role requires expertise in Bazel, C++, Python, Bash, as well as experience with version control, continuous integration, and delivery systems. This position is crucial for addressing performance bottlenecks and improving the overall flight software ecosystem at a large scale within the aerospace industry.

Skills

Bazel C++ Python Bash CI/CD Docker Kubernetes Terraform Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL Git AWS Azure

What you'll do

Maintain flight code generation tooling for Starlink's flight software and GNC engineers.
Identify and resolve inefficiencies in the build system to speed up developer iteration.
Design tools and processes that simplify development and operational systems for ground and satellite software.
Engage with flight software developers to address slow or error-prone aspects of embedded software development.
Collaborate with ground software teams to streamline constellation operations by modifying flight systems.

What we're looking for

Knowledge of Bazel, C++, Python, and Bash.
Experience identifying and improving performance bottlenecks in build systems and embedded environments.
Ability to design user interfaces for software engineers.
Experience with version control, continuous integration, and delivery systems.
Skill in developing fault-tolerant distributed or real-time embedded systems.

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