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Data Engineer (Direct To Cell)

SpaceX is building the Direct to Cell network to extend Starlink connectivity to LTE phones and devices worldwide. The company seeks a Data Engineer to design and build data infrastructure, ingestion pipelines, analytics, and tooling to measure and scale the Direct to Cell program and support cross-team investigations and partner integrations.

Skills

  • Experience in analytics, data science, or machine learning
  • Data/software engineering experience (1+ years, internships applicable)
  • Proficiency with SQL
  • Development experience in object-oriented languages (Python, C, C++)
  • Experience with Parquet or similar columnar storage formats
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes and streaming/in-stream processing
  • Experience with ETL design and maintenance and data pipeline tooling
  • Experience with Spark, Presto, Flink, or Snowflake preferred

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain data ingestion, transformation, storage, and analytics infrastructure
  • Automate metric aggregation and detect application-level issues at scale
  • Lead technical investigations into chronic application and network issues
  • Fuse data from multiple sources and create catalogs and tools for analytics
  • Collaborate with operators, engineering leaders, subsystem engineers, software and network engineers, and external partners

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, physics, mathematics, or another STEM discipline (required)

Benefits

  • Base salary within posted ranges plus eligibility for long-term incentives (stock/options/cash awards)
  • Medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short- and long-term disability and life insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan and other discounts/perks
  • Approximately 3 weeks paid vacation, 10+ paid holidays, and 5 sick days (for exempt employees)
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