Software Engineer, Telemetry - Top Secret Clearance (Starlink)

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Hawthorne, CA
Salary: $120,000–$145,000 / yr
Posted: today

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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.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Telemetry - Top Secret Clearance (Starlink)

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Join the Starlink team as a Software Engineer responsible for designing and building a highly reliable, distributed telemetry platform that ingests, processes, stores, and queries data at petabyte scale. You will collaborate with satellite and rocket teams to ensure mission-critical needs are met through elegant technical solutions while taking full ownership of the software and hardware stack. This role requires experience in C#, Java, or similar languages, expertise in Kubernetes and containerized deployments, and a strong understanding of Linux, version control systems, testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and monitoring tools. Active Top Secret clearance is mandatory for this position within the aerospace industry, focusing on large-scale distributed system design and optimization.

Skills

Kubernetes C# Java Linux Version Control Testing CI/CD Monitoring Systems Distributed Systems Data Processing Data Querying Python PostgreSQL

What you'll do

Design and build a highly reliable, distributed telemetry platform for petabyte-scale data.
Partner with satellite and rocket teams to translate mission needs into technical solutions.
Take full ownership of the software and hardware stack from end-to-end.
Experience in designing and optimizing large-scale distributed systems for high-volume data.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployments.

What we're looking for

Programming experience in C#, Java, or similar languages
Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems for high-volume data processing
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployments
Active Top Secret clearance (TS/SCI preferred)
Working knowledge of Linux, version control, testing, CI/CD, deployment, and monitoring systems

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