Software Engineer

SpaceX

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Work type
On-site
Location
Palo Alto, CA
Salary
$135,000–$175,000 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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This role $155k
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This role pays more than 54% of similar roles. Most pay $137,500–$202,500 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $155k versus about $170k 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 853 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $125,000–$165,000 across 579 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer

Software Engineer (Starlink Enterprise) joins the Starlink Enterprise Software team to build interfaces and systems for large-scale customers across sectors like emergency response, education, and transportation. You will engineer well-architected, performant software by building tools to manage thousands of global devices, developing core backend systems to serve data, and creating internal interfaces for sales and operations. This role requires working across the full stack, including UI/UX design, distributed systems engineering, and embedded software. You will utilize object-oriented programming, Javascript or Typescript frameworks, and relational databases while applying version control, continuous integration, and continuous delivery concepts. The work involves solving complex problems for the world’s largest satellite constellation, ensuring reliable broadband internet delivery for businesses and communities worldwide through high-performance, large-scale application development on UNIX-like operating systems.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214500 from 1156 postings across 72 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Engineer well-architected, responsive, and reliable software for Starlink customers and internal users.
  • Build excellent frontends for modern web browsers.
  • Design, build, maintain, and debug complex backend systems.
  • Develop tools to manage thousands of Starlink devices globally.
  • Create core backend systems to serve data for large-scale customers.
  • Build internal interfaces used by sales and operations teams.
  • Identify and create efficient solutions by deep-diving into user problems.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a STEM discipline and 1+ years of experience building full-stack software.
  • 3+ years of professional experience building full-stack software in lieu of a degree.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for Department of State authorization.
  • Programming experience in an object-oriented language (preferred).
  • Front-end experience in a Javascript or Typescript framework (preferred).
  • Experience working with relational databases (preferred).
  • Experience with version control, continuous integration, and continuous delivery concepts (preferred).
  • Experience with large-scale and/or performance-critical application development (preferred).

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