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Base Salary
$165k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop highly reliable real-time software for network switches, servers, ground antennas, and satellites.
- Own software across architecture design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Build tools for testing, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Develop prototypes and manage experiments to validate key design concepts.
- Innovate networking technologies that direct data across satellites, ground stations, and users.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a science discipline.
- At least 5 years of professional software development experience.
- Experience with networking protocols such as UDP and TCP/IP and with operating systems.
- Preferred experience writing production C or C++ software and software for embedded devices.
- Preferred experience owning development, testing, and deployment for real-world applications.
- Preferred experience with network optimization, traffic shaping, bandwidth management, distributed-systems security, and service-provider networks.
- Understanding of Ethernet, IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, subscriber provisioning, BRAS, DNS, DHCP, and NTP.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Must meet applicable ITAR eligibility or be eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
Benefits
- Long-term incentives, potential discretionary bonuses, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Medical, vision, dental, 401(k), disability, life insurance, paid parental leave, discounts, and other perks.
- Approximately three weeks of paid vacation and 10 or more paid holidays annually.
- Washington State paid sick time in compliance with applicable law.
- 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.