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Software Engineer, CDN (Starlink)

SpaceX· Starlink Network Engineering
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Hawthorne, CA$135k - $195kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer role focused on designing, building, and operating a scalable Content Delivery Network (CDN) for SpaceX Starlink, including distributed systems, traffic shaping across CDNs, and related tooling and experiments.

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 diagnose, operate, and maintain complex, business-critical systems in real-time
  • Design algorithms to understand and optimize hardware utilization and cost efficiency, evaluated against 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 use cases for Starlink

Qualifications

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

Skills

Required:CC++Rust
Nice to have:Distributed systemsEdge Networking / DNS / Traffic Management / Caching / Load Balancing / SSL/TLS / DDoS protection / Monitoring

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short and long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Discretionary bonuses and stock incentives / Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • Company shuttles from select Seattle locations to SpaceX Redmond office
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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