Software Engineer, Data - Top Secret Clearance (Starlink)
Core
Building highly reliable and scalable data pipelines and applications to empower engineers and improve business operations for SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet system.
Role type
Senior IC data engineer (infrastructure & pipelines)
Builds
Production data pipelines, internal business applications, and prototypes for Starlink operations
Domain
Aerospace / Satellite Communications / Big Data
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Full stack development, data engineering, data science, Python, C#, Java, Scala, Go, in-stream big data processing, Apache Kafka, Spark, Flink, SQL, relational and non-relational databases, data lakes (HBase, Hive, Delta Lake, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB), version control, testing, continuous integration, build, deployment, monitoring, statistics, machine learning algorithms
Preferred skills
Front-end experience (Angular, React, JavaScript), data exploration tools (Grafana, Jupyter Notebooks, Metabase, PowerBI)
Responsibilities
Develop highly reliable and scalable data pipelines to empower engineers across SpaceX, Create new applications that improve how the business at SpaceX operates, Collaborate with peers on architecture, design, and code reviews, Build prototypes to prove out key design concepts and quantify technical constraints, Own all aspects of software engineering and product development, Deep dive into business problems, find efficient solutions and apply first principles thinking
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC