Senior Software Engineer
SpaceX
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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.
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 853 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $125,000–$165,000 across 579 roles with salary data.
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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.
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