Sr. Software Engineer (Flight Reliability)

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Hawthorne, CA
Salary: $160,000–$225,000 / yr
Posted: today

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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 · Sr. Software Engineer (Flight Reliability)

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The Sr. Software Engineer role at SpaceX’s Flight Reliability team involves developing mission-critical applications to enhance launch vehicle production and support Starlink's growth into a global Internet service. This full-stack position focuses on building single-page web applications, designing agentic AI systems, and implementing rigorous testing and deployment practices. Key responsibilities include creating features that improve engineering efficiency while maintaining high reliability standards across SpaceX’s fleet of vehicles. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in full stack development, deep expertise in Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and LLM prompting for AI systems. This role demands a strong background in computer science or related fields with significant industry experience.

Skills

Python JavaScript Docker CI/CD Kubernetes Terraform PostgreSQL Agentic AI systems LLM prompting Context retrieval Evaluation and monitoring Single page web applications

What you'll do

Design and develop single page web applications for mission-critical systems.
Implement rigorous testing, continuous integration, build, deployment, and monitoring processes.
Build agentic AI systems including LLM prompting, context retrieval, evaluation, and monitoring.
Enhance features to improve vehicle reliability while supporting engineering changes and risk mitigation.
Deploy and manage Docker containers in production environments for application scalability.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline and 4+ years of professional experience OR 6+ years of software development experience
5+ years of full stack development experience
Deep expertise in building single page web applications
Strong understanding of testing, continuous integration, build, deployment, and monitoring practices
Experience designing and deploying agentic AI systems including LLM prompting and evaluation
Production experience with Docker

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