Full Stack Engineer, Flight Software

About the Role

SpaceX is seeking a Full Stack Engineer for Flight Software to join their application software team, which functions as the central nervous system of the company. This team creates mission-critical applications that accelerate launch vehicle production and flight, and systems that enable Starlink's growth into a reliable internet service. The role involves creating and evolving systems for rapid build and reuse of Starship, designing next-generation manufacturing software for high-throughput factories, and developing platforms for concurrent data streams from numerous assets to manage the world's largest satellite constellation, as well as public-facing systems for Starlink. You will work closely with engineers across the company on systems related to crewed launches, Starship flights, and Starlink network changes.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop highly reliable software solutions used across SpaceX.
• Create new applications to improve SpaceX operations.
• Build prototypes to validate key design concepts and quantify technical constraints.
• Own all aspects of software engineering and product development.
• Deep dive into user problems to find and create efficient solutions.
• Contribute to team collaborations on architecture, design, and code reviews.

Requirements & Tech Stack

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience building software in lieu of a degree.
• 1+ years of experience in full stack development.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Programming experience in Python, C#.NET, Go, Scala, Java, or similar object-oriented language.
• 1+ years of rigorous experience building single page web applications.
• Experience with version control, continuous integration, and continuous delivery concepts.
• Expertise in designing software systems.
• Deep understanding of testing, continuous integration, build, deployment, and monitoring.
• Expertise in profiling and improving application performance.
• Experience with build systems (Make, Bazel/Pants/Buck, Gradle) and package management tools (pip, npm).
• Experience with UNIX-like operating systems and tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet for managing them.
• Experience working with in-stream data processing using Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, or similar technologies.
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Front-end experience in Angular, React, or similar JavaScript framework.
• Database experience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or similar database technologies.

Additional Requirements

• This role requires you to be onsite.
• You may be asked to work extended hours/weekends dependent on launch cadence.

Qualifications

Smart, motivated, respectful, collaborative engineers who love solving problems and want to make an impact on a super inspiring mission.

ITAR Requirements: To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. • 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. • 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.