Software Engineer, Starlink Ground Network

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain reliable software for capacity planning and optimization of the Starlink Ground Network.
• Develop scalable data pipelines and backend services to ingest telemetry, inventory, cost, and usage data.
• Create simulation, optimization, and forecasting engines to predict network needs and identify bottlenecks.
• Own the full software lifecycle including architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Prototype solutions and quantify technical constraints to solve capacity, cost, and scaling problems.
• Produce actionable capacity models and KPIs to forecast demand and optimize infrastructure deployments.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, physics, or a STEM discipline.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience in lieu of a degree.
• 1+ years of professional experience in software engineering, data engineering, or related fields.
• Development experience in an object-oriented or systems programming language such as C++, Python, Go, Java, or C#.
• Experience building capacity-planning, forecasting, or optimization systems (preferred).
• Strong backend experience with APIs, data pipelines, and in-stream processing of structured/semi-structured data (preferred).
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, data lakes, and ETL/ELT pipelines (preferred).
• Applicant must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for required Department of State authorizations.