Software Engineer, CDN

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Hawthorne, CA
Salary: $135,000–$160,000 / yr
Posted: 15 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Similar $165k

This role $148k

$117k most similar roles pay here $202k

This role pays more than 53% of similar roles. Most pay $136,125–$193,350 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $148k versus about $165k 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 · Software Engineer, CDN

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Software Engineer, CDN (Starlink) joins the CDN team to design, build, and scale a new Content Delivery Network for Starlink. The role involves developing robust, responsive distributed systems while creating tools, visibility, and alerting mechanisms to maintain business-critical infrastructure in real-time. Responsibilities include designing algorithms to optimize hardware utilization and cost efficiency, implementing systems to shape traffic across multiple CDNs, and managing experiments to validate future design concepts. Candidates should possess experience with C, C++, or Rust, along with expertise in networking, distributed systems, and complex networking layers from 0-7. Preferred skills include knowledge of Edge Networking, DNS, Traffic Management, Caching, Load Balancing, SSL/TLS, and DDoS protection. The role addresses the technical challenge of providing scalable broadband internet infrastructure for a global satellite constellation by optimizing network topology and performance metrics.

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Skills

C C++ Rust CDN Distributed Systems Networking Edge Networking DNS Traffic Management Caching Load Balancing SSL/TLS DDoS Protection Monitoring Graph Theory Convex Optimization

What you'll do

Design, build, and scale a new Content Delivery Network (CDN) for Starlink.
Build robust, responsive, and scalable distributed systems.
Create tools, visibility, and alerting mechanisms to diagnose and maintain business-critical systems in real-time.
Develop algorithms to optimize hardware utilization and cost efficiency against performance metrics.
Implement systems that manage and shape traffic across multiple CDNs.
Lead architecture, design, and code reviews for the engineering team.
Develop prototypes and manage experiments to validate future design concepts and use cases.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or another STEM discipline, or 2+ years of professional software development experience.
Software development experience in C, C++, or Rust.
Advanced degree in computer science or engineering (preferred).
Networking experience (preferred).
Professional distributed systems experience (preferred).
Professional experience designing, building, and scaling a CDN system (preferred).
Experience with complex networking systems, Edge Networking, DNS, Traffic Management, Caching, Load Balancing, SSL/TLS, or DDoS protection (preferred).
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee to meet ITAR requirements.

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