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Software Engineer, CDN (Starlink)

SpaceX· Starlink Network Engineering
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Palo Alto, CA$125k - $210kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer role focused on designing, building, and scaling Starlink's Content Delivery Network (CDN) and related distributed systems. Involves architecture reviews, prototypes, and operations tooling to optimize hardware utilization, traffic shaping across CDNs, and real-time system maintainability.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and scale a new Content Delivery Network (CDN) for Starlink
  • Build robust, responsive, and scalable distributed systems.
  • Build the necessary tools, visibility, and alerting mechanisms to effectively diagnose, operate, and maintain complex, business-critical systems in real-time.
  • Design algorithms to understand and optimize hardware utilization and cost efficiency, evaluated against intuitive and business-critical performance metrics.
  • Implement the systems which shape traffic across multiple CDNs.
  • Participate in and lead architecture, design, and code reviews.
  • Develop prototypes and manage experiments to prove out future design concepts and future use cases for Starlink.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or other STEM discipline OR 2+ years of professional experience in software development in lieu of a degree.
  • Software development experience in C, C++, or Rust.

Skills

Required:CC++Rust

Benefits

  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • vacation (3 weeks) and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (discounted stock)
  • potential discretionary bonuses
  • stock or long-term cash incentives
  • shuttle service for select locations
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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