Senior Software Engineer
Highnote
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This role pays less than 51% of similar roles. Most pay $144,350–$217,725 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $173k versus about $181k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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.
SpaceX currently has 634 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $130,000–$160,000 across 469 roles with salary data.
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Join Instacart’s 6-person Developer Experience team within a ~50-person platform organization as a senior software engineer, where you will design and build core developer platforms and tooling to enhance engineering velocity and reliability. Your daily tasks include reducing build and test times, eliminating flaky steps, and hardening workflows while owning critical roadmap areas end-to-end. You will partner with product engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver robust solutions, establish secure-by-default development practices, and lead cross-functional initiatives that span multiple teams. The role requires proficiency in Go, Python, or TypeScript, hands-on experience with modern CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions and Jenkins, and expertise in containerization and orchestration on major cloud providers. Ideal candidates have a track record of improving engineering KPIs and strong collaboration skills across infra, security, and product teams.
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