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SpaceX's Starlink team builds and operates the world’s largest satellite broadband system. The Data Engineer will develop metrics, tooling, and data infrastructure to measure Starlink's performance and scalability, collaborating with operators, subsystem engineers, software and network teams, and external partners to enable data-driven growth and reliability for millions of users.

Skills

  • Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field and 1+ years data/software engineering experience (internships applicable)
  • Experience in analytics, data science, or machine learning
  • Familiarity with big-data processing frameworks (Spark, Presto, Flink) and cloud data warehouses (Snowflake)
  • Experience with columnar storage formats (Parquet) and large (TB+) datasets
  • Experience designing and maintaining ETL pipelines and streaming data processing
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes and deploying data services
  • Ability to develop, deploy, and maintain tools used for data analysis

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain mission-critical data infrastructure, tools, and custom software to assess program growth and network effectiveness
  • Automate metric aggregation and detection of widespread application issues across Starlink
  • Fuse and transform data from multiple sources into usable analytics products and data catalogs
  • Lead technical investigations into chronic application-level issues and collaborate with external application/content owners
  • Develop ground-based systems to ingest, process, store, and serve large-scale data for analytics
  • Apply analytics, models, and machine learning techniques to data produced by space vehicles and network systems

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, physics, mathematics, or another STEM discipline

Benefits

  • Base salary within posted range plus potential long-term incentives (equity/stock/options) and discretionary bonuses
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance and life insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Approximately 3 weeks paid vacation and 10+ paid holidays per year; exempt employees eligible for 5 days sick leave per year
  • Company shuttle service from select Seattle locations to Redmond office
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