Senior Network Edge Engineer

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $165,000–$270,000 / yr
Posted: 32 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 · Senior Network Edge Engineer

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As a Sr. Network Edge Engineer (Starlink), you will join a cross-functional team of subsystem engineers, software developers, and operations specialists to shape global connectivity. You will develop and deploy interconnection infrastructure, focusing on peering, transit, caching, and exchange strategies to deliver low-latency internet access. Your daily responsibilities include designing peering policies, managing traffic routing, and leading global IX strategy, including capacity planning and location selection. You will build automated tools for interconnection workflows, route validation, and telemetry while maintaining technical relationships with global partners. The role requires expertise in BGP, IP routing, network telemetry, and optical transport. You will solve complex problems regarding routing efficiency and transit dependency across terrestrial and orbital network layers to optimize performance for millions of worldwide users.

Skills

BGP IP Routing Network Telemetry IXP Traffic Engineering Optical Transport Peering Transit Network Infrastructure Distributed Systems Capacity Planning Route Filtering Incident Response Real-time Monitoring Automation

What you'll do

Define and develop project milestones and maintain roadmaps to deliver on program directives.
Evaluate and analyze peering and transit opportunities to balance cost, performance, and routing control.
Build and maintain technical and commercial relationships with global peering partners.
Design and maintain peering policies including traffic management, route filtering, and redundancy planning.
Lead global IX strategy including location selection, capacity planning, and onboarding new interconnects.
Automate and operationalize interconnection workflows such as route validation, telemetry, and incident response.
Integrate the interconnection layer into the broader Starlink infrastructure with cross-functional teams.

What we're looking for

5+ years of experience in network infrastructure including peering, interconnection engineering, and backbone architecture.
Experience working with BGP, IP routing, and network telemetry.
Experience with IXPs, colocation environments, optical transport, and traffic engineering strategies.
10+ years of experience designing, building, and optimizing internet interconnects and peering systems (preferred).
Experience identifying, negotiating, and executing legal agreements and requirements (preferred).
Extensive professional network within the global ISP, IXP, and content distribution community (preferred).
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for Department of State authorization.
Must be willing to travel 10-15% domestically and globally, work extended hours, and participate in on-call rotations.

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