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 all aspects of software engineering and product development
- Investigate user problems and create efficient solutions
- Contribute to architecture, design, and code reviews
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline and 5+ years of professional software development experience, or 7+ years of professional experience building software 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 continuous delivery concepts
- Expertise designing software systems and improving application performance
- Experience with testing, build, deployment, monitoring, build systems, and package management tools
- Experience with UNIX-like operating systems and tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet
- Experience with in-stream data processing technologies such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or ActiveMQ
- Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Frontend experience with Angular, React, or a similar JavaScript framework
- Database experience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or similar technologies
- Must satisfy applicable ITAR eligibility or authorization requirements
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short- and long-term disability insurance and life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Approximately three weeks of paid vacation and 10 or more paid holidays per year
- Paid sick leave under company policy
- Potential stock, stock options, long-term cash awards, discretionary bonuses, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, discounts, and other perks
- May require extended hours and weekends depending on launch cadence
Tech Stack
Categories
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.