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Operations Development Engineer (Starlink)

SpaceX· Starlink Ground Network Engineering
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Redmond, WA$105k - $145kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Engineering the operational systems, processes, and tooling to support Starlink as it scales globally. Build automation, monitoring, and AI-enabled workflows to maintain and improve Starlink network operations, from design to deployment and support.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, implement and scale Starlink Network Operations processes, automation, and tools that provide global internet access
  • Design operational workflows from first principles and implement the resulting procedure, automation, and tooling
  • Work with development engineering teams to drive design for operations: assess how proposed workflow and system changes affect operations health and efficiency, catch scaling issues early in the development lifecycle, and incorporate debugging tools and strategies so handover to operations is effective
  • Interact with key stakeholders to identify their desired outcomes, take their inputs and deliver improvements to Network Operations owned processes
  • Work with the diverse teams across the Starlink program to develop monitoring, detection and response processes that drive quick resolution to emergent network events
  • Define and develop projects, milestones, and maintain roadmaps, practicing flexible prioritization and scope management to deliver on program directives
  • Take extreme ownership of deliverables and make risk-conscious decisions under pressure
  • Design operational systems end-to-end: alerting, detection, triage paths, handoffs, automation, and the interfaces between tools and operators
  • Build and maintain scoped software and internal tooling (Python, scripting, APIs, workflow orchestration) whose customer is the live operation
  • Implement AI in production operations workflows (investigation assistants, procedure retrieval, alert/ticket triage, vendor and API copilots); measure the result on toil, error rate, and time-to-restore
  • Write operational specifications and success criteria for new products and services; partner with software engineering when required

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering
  • Experience in Python and SQL
  • Experience building automation or operational tooling in a NOC, SOC, SRE, sysadmin, or network engineering environment

Skills

Required:PythonSQLAutomation/tooling development
Nice to have:Monitoring/alerting systemsAI in production workflowsDocumentation

Benefits

  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • paid vacation (3 weeks)
  • 10+ paid holidays per year
  • employee stock purchase plan and potential bonuses
  • company shuttles from select Seattle locations to Redmond office
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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