Software Engineer (Starlink Ground Network) is open at SpaceX in Redmond, WA. The posting gives a salary of $125K - $165K. Posted on Sep 25, 2026, and still on SpaceX’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Design, build, and maintain highly reliable software for capacity planning, forecasting, and optimization of the Starlink Ground Network. Develop scalable data pipelines, and backend services that ingest telemetry, inventory, cost, and usage data to produce actionable capacity models and KPIs. Create simulation, optimization, and forecasting engines that predict future ground-network needs, identify bottlenecks, and…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on SpaceX’s careers page.
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