Sr. Application Software Engineer, Manufacturing Systems

SpaceX • Bastrop, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

SpaceX’s application software team builds mission-critical applications used throughout the company to accelerate launch vehicle production and flight, and to support Starlink’s growth. For manufacturing systems, the team is creating and evolving software that enables rapid Starship production and reuse and developing next-generation manufacturing software for high-throughput Starlink factories. The team also develops data platforms and customer-facing applications, working closely with engineers across SpaceX as missions, vehicles, and the Starlink network evolve.

The role offers ownership of challenging software and product-development problems, from prototyping and design through implementation. The engineer collaborates with teammates on architecture, design, and code reviews and works directly to understand users’ needs and deliver efficient, reliable solutions. Aerospace experience is not required. The position must be performed onsite; remote and hybrid work are not considered.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a scientific discipline and at least 5 years of professional software-development experience; alternatively, at least 7 years of professional experience building software in lieu of a degree.
• At least 3 years of professional experience in full-stack development.
• Must meet U.S. export-control requirements: be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Nice To Haves

• Programming experience in 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 in software-system design.
• Deep understanding of testing, continuous integration, build, deployment, and monitoring.
• Expertise in profiling and improving application performance.
• Experience with build systems such as Make, Bazel, Pants, Buck, or Gradle, and package-management tools such as pip or npm.
• Experience with UNIX-like operating systems and tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet for managing them.
• Experience with in-stream data processing using Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, or similar technologies.
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Front-end experience with Angular, React, or a similar JavaScript framework.
• Database experience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or similar database technologies.

Responsibilities

• Develop highly reliable software solutions used across SpaceX.
• Create new applications that improve how SpaceX operates.
• Build prototypes to validate key design concepts and quantify technical constraints.
• Own all aspects of software engineering and product development.
• Investigate users’ problems in depth and create efficient solutions.
• Contribute to team collaborations on architecture, design, and code reviews.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior