SpaceX

Sr. Software Engineer (Platform Team)

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5 months ago
Redmond, WA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$160k - $225k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, architecture, implementation, and operation of secure, scalable AI platforms and company-wide proxy systems.
  • Own platform initiatives end to end, including technical strategy, implementation, testing, deployment, and long-term evolution.
  • Onboard frontier models, expand compute resources, and optimize proxy performance, security, logging, and control.
  • Build shared products, prompts, skills, infrastructure, documentation, training, and hands-on support to drive adoption.
  • Develop tools for AI-powered code review, pull-request automation, safety guardrails, and other business-risk mitigation.
  • Enable users to convert engineering problems and ideas into tested software, deployed applications, and trained models on managed compute.
  • Define secure, effective applied-AI best practices and collaborate with ML research, security, operations, and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Mentor engineers and communicate the value and impact of platform capabilities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline and 5+ years of professional experience building production software, or 7+ years of such experience in lieu of a degree.
  • Experience developing and operating production platforms such as AI/ML infrastructure, developer platforms, or large-scale backend systems.
  • Preferred experience building internal AI gateways, secure proxy systems, or MLOps platforms.
  • Deep hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, security architecture, and integrations across multiple cloud and frontier model providers.
  • Experience with model onboarding, compute orchestration, observability, and infrastructure for high-volume AI usage.
  • Proficiency in Python and strong experience with additional languages such as Go, Java, TypeScript, or Rust.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and highly reliable distributed systems.
  • Applicants must satisfy applicable ITAR authorization requirements, including qualifying U.S. citizenship or immigration status or eligibility to obtain required authorizations.

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan eligibility
  • Three weeks of accrued paid vacation
  • 10 or more paid holidays per year
  • Paid sick leave under company policy
SpaceX

About SpaceX

10,000+ employees

SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches orbital rockets and spacecraft, and operates Starlink, a global satellite internet network for consumers, businesses, and governments. Its revenue comes from commercial and government launch services (Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy, Dragon cargo and crew to the ISS) and subscription broadband with Starlink hardware and service. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Hawthorne, California, the privately held company serves NASA and commercial satellite operators, building most systems in-house.

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