SpaceX is looking to build and maintain the systems that manage the world's largest satellite constellation, Starlink, to provide fast, reliable internet to millions of users worldwide and to enable human life on Mars.
Requirements
- Experience with Python or C++, and Linux programming.
- Experience with distributed systems or large-scale consumer internet systems.
- Production experience with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
- Understanding of version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment, and monitoring.
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, or similar).
- Previous experience with satellites or spacecraft systems is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Develop highly reliable and available software systems for managing thousands of satellites in low-earth orbit.
- Be accountable and responsible for all software written and designed, and their interactions with the hardware and environments around them.
- Participate in architecture, design, and code reviews.
- Design software for both vehicles flying in space, and the ground systems that support them
- Collaborate with other engineers to plan and organize the development of our products.
Other
- Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
- Company shuttles are offered to employees for roundtrip travel from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office Monday to Friday.
