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Sr. Network Edge Engineer (Starlink)

SpaceX· Starlink Ground Network Engineering
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Redmond, WA$165k - $270kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Network Edge Engineer focused on interconnection infrastructure, peering, transit, caching, and exchange strategies to enable Starlink’s global, low-latency internet service.

Responsibilities

  • Define and develop projects, milestones, and maintain roadmaps, practicing flexible prioritization and scope management to deliver on program directives
  • Lead the strategic evaluation and analysis of peering and transit opportunities, balancing cost efficiency, performance, and routing control across dozens of global markets
  • Interact with key stakeholders to identify their desired outcomes, take their inputs and deliver improvements to Peering owned processes
  • Build and maintain technical and commercial relationships with global peering partners. Use existing deep industry connections to accelerate execution
  • Design and maintain peering policies, including traffic management, route filtering, redundancy planning, and failover strategies
  • Collaborate with diverse teams across Starlink to ensure seamless integration of peering implementation
  • Lead global IX strategy, including location selection, capacity planning, and onboarding of new interconnects
  • Work with partner teams to automate and operationalize interconnection workflows, including route validation, telemetry, incident response, and lifecycle tracking

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in network infrastructure (peering, interconnection engineering, backbone architecture)
  • Experience working with: BGP, IP routing & network telemetry
  • Experience with IXPs (Internet exchange point), colocation environments, optical transport, and traffic engineering strategies

Skills

Required:BGPIP routingnetwork telemetry
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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