Senior Software Engineer, Continuous Integration

SpaceX

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On-site
Location
Hawthorne, CA
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$160,000–$225,000 / yr
Posted
179 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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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.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Continuous Integration

As a Sr. Software Engineer on the Starship Continuous Integration team, you will own the tools powering Starship software development. You will design, maintain, and scale systems that enable hundreds of engineers to integrate changes and deliver reliable software to all Starship vehicles and launch pads on a continuous basis. Your daily responsibilities include inventing tools and processes for fast software development, performing hands-on integration and troubleshooting across the entire Starship software stack, and improving a dedicated pool of on-premises compute. You will utilize skills in Bazel, Python, C++, Rust, or Go to solve complex problems. This role focuses on building infrastructure for the world’s first fully reusable rocket and spacecraft, requiring first-principles problem-solving to improve code quality and development workflows through innovative software solutions.

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What you'll do

  • Design, maintain, and scale systems that enable hundreds of engineers to integrate software changes.
  • Invent tools and processes to facilitate fast and correct software development.
  • Perform hands-on integration and troubleshooting across the entire Starship software stack.
  • Design, maintain, and continuously improve a dedicated pool of on-premises compute.
  • Identify software development bottlenecks and create innovative solutions to overcome them.
  • Deliver reliable software to all Starship vehicles and launch pads on a continuous basis.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 5+ years of software engineering experience and a Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a STEM discipline.
  • Must have 7+ years of professional experience in software development in lieu of a degree.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
  • Skill with Bazel or similar build systems (preferred).
  • Fluency in Python, C++, Rust, or Go (preferred).
  • Experience building tools and infrastructure that impacts hundreds of engineers daily (preferred).
  • Experience with AI-assisted development tools and interest in applying AI to improve code quality, testing, and development workflows (preferred).
  • Strong critical thinking, first-principles problem-solving, and excellent communication skills (preferred).

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