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Software Engineer, Data (Starlink)

Hawthorne, CA💼 Full-time💰 $1–$1🗓 2026-07-29 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building a highly reliable and scalable enterprise data platform to ingest, process, store, and query petabyte-scale data for SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet system.

Role type

Senior IC data platform engineer

Builds

Enterprise data platform and end-to-end data pipelines for Starlink operations

Domain

Aerospace / Satellite Communications / Big Data

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Full stack development, data engineering, data science, Scala, Java, C#, Python, Go, Apache Kafka, Spark, Flink, relational and non-relational databases, data lakes, statistics, machine learning algorithms

Preferred skills

Frontend frameworks (Angular, React), data exploration tools (Grafana, Metabase, PowerBI), version control, CI/CD, testing, monitoring

Technologies

Kafka, Spark, Flink, Hive, Delta Lake, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, Angular, React, Grafana, Metabase, PowerBI

Responsibilities

Develop scalable enterprise data platform, create end-to-end data pipelines, collaborate on architecture and code reviews, build prototypes to prove design concepts, own software engineering and product development, solve business problems using first principles thinking

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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