3 days ago
Base Salary
$200k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale a new Content Delivery Network for Starlink.
- Build robust, responsive, and scalable distributed systems.
- Develop tools, visibility, and alerting to diagnose, operate, and maintain business-critical systems in real time.
- Design algorithms to optimize hardware utilization and cost efficiency against business-critical performance metrics.
- Implement systems that shape traffic across multiple CDNs.
- Lead and participate in architecture, design, and code reviews.
- Develop prototypes and manage experiments for future Starlink designs and use cases.
- Work extended hours and weekends as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or another STEM discipline plus 5+ years of professional software development experience, or 7+ years of software development experience in lieu of a degree.
- Professional software development experience in C, C++, or Rust.
- At least 3 years of professional distributed systems experience or experience designing, building, and scaling a CDN system.
- At least 3 years of professional networking experience.
- Preferred: advanced degree in computer science or engineering.
- Preferred: experience with complex networking systems, edge networking, DNS, traffic management, caching, load balancing, SSL/TLS, DDoS protection, or monitoring.
- Preferred: knowledge of network topology, numerical optimization, graph theory, or convex optimization.
- Preferred: experience developing, debugging, and deploying scalable software used in real-world applications.
- Strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, and engineering fundamentals.
Benefits
- Base salary is listed at $200,000.00-$280,000.00 per year, excluding this extraction’s compensation field.
- Potential long-term incentives, stock options, long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, and employee stock purchase plan access.
- Medical, vision, dental, 401(k), disability, life insurance, paid parental leave, discounts, and other perks.
- Three weeks of paid vacation, 10 or more paid holidays, and five days of sick leave for exempt employees.
- Company shuttles are available Monday through Friday from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office.
About SpaceX
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.