Base Salary
$165k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop highly reliable software solutions used across SpaceX.
- Create applications that improve SpaceX operations.
- Build prototypes to validate design concepts and quantify technical constraints.
- Own software engineering and product development activities from design through delivery.
- Investigate user problems and create efficient solutions.
- Participate in architecture, design, and code reviews and contribute to team collaboration.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline plus 5+ years of professional software development experience, or 7+ years of professional software-building experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least 3 years of professional full-stack development experience.
- Programming experience with Python, C#.NET, Go, Scala, Java, or a similar object-oriented language.
- At least 1 year of rigorous experience building single-page web applications.
- Experience with version control, continuous integration and delivery concepts, software system design, testing, build and deployment, monitoring, and application performance optimization.
- Experience with build systems, package management tools, UNIX-like operating systems, infrastructure-management tools, in-stream data processing, Docker, Kubernetes, front-end frameworks, and databases.
- Ability to meet SpaceX ITAR eligibility requirements or obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
Benefits
- Base salary range is $165,000.00-$230,000.00 per year, with potential stock, stock options, long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan access.
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage is provided.
- Benefits include a 401(k), disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, discounts, and other perks.
- Employees may accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and receive 10 or more paid holidays per year, plus paid sick leave under company policy.
- The role may require extended hours or weekend work depending on launch cadence.
Tech Stack
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About SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA. For more information, visit www.spacex.com.