Senior Software Engineer, Platform Team

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Salary: $170,000–$235,000 / yr
Posted: 114 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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, Platform Team

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As a Sr. Software Engineer (Platform Team), you will join the team responsible for building foundational tooling and security infrastructure to empower internal teams to utilize AI effectively. You will design, architect, and implement secure, scalable AI platforms and proxy systems that integrate with various cloud compute providers and frontier model providers. Your daily work involves onboarding new models, expanding compute capacity, optimizing proxy efficiency for logging and control, and developing risk-mitigation tools like intelligent code review and PR assistants. To succeed, you must possess expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, security architecture, and infrastructure-as-code while utilizing Python and other languages such as Go, Java, TypeScript, or Rust. You will solve complex problems by converting engineering know-how into automated systems and reliable data stores, ensuring the safe and efficient deployment of AI capabilities across the organization.

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Skills

AI MLOps Docker Kubernetes Python Go Java TypeScript Rust infrastructure-as-code CI/CD Distributed Systems Security Architecture Proxy Systems

What you'll do

Design and architect secure, scalable AI platforms and proxy systems for company-wide use.
Manage end-to-end platform initiatives including technical strategy, implementation, testing, and deployment.
Onboard new frontier models and expand compute resources across multiple cloud providers.
Optimize proxy systems for performance, security, logging, and control.
Develop risk-mitigation tools such as AI-powered code reviews and PR automation.
Create shared infrastructure, prompts, and skills to accelerate internal engineering workflows.
Define best practices for lean, secure, and effective applied AI across the organization.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field is required.
At least 5 years of professional experience building production software is required for those with a degree.
At least 7 years of professional experience building production software is required for those without a degree.
Experience developing and operating production platforms such as AI/ML infrastructure, developer platforms, or large-scale backend systems.
Proficiency in Python and experience with other languages like Go, Java, TypeScript, or Rust.
Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, security architecture, and multi-cloud provider integrations.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and building highly reliable distributed systems.
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee to meet ITAR requirements.

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