# Sr. Software Engineer

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars. SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER The application software team is the central nervous system of SpaceX - we create mission critical applications that are used throughout SpaceX to accelerate launch vehicle production and flight as well as systems that allow Starlink to grow into a worldwide fast, reliable Internet service. We are looking for engineers who treat fellow teammates with fairness, respect, and support. Our team is currently creating and evolving systems to enable rapid build and reuse of Starship as well as designing the next generation manufacturing software that will be used in high throughput factories for Starlink. Other applications range from platforms that support concurrent streams of data from many always-on assets to manage the world’s largest satellite constellation to public facing systems where customers can join our Starlink network globally. We work closely with engineers throughout the com

- **Id**: 3769613
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/spacex-sr-software-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bastrop, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T17:56:26Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T22:10:48Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4847
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Satellite Communications, Launch Services, Satellite Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 66
- **Name**: SpaceX
- **Domain**: spacex.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/spacex>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 56
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.054
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 85
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Technologies

- **ActiveMQ** — Optional: yes
- **Angular** — Optional: yes
- **Ansible** — Optional: yes
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **C#** — Optional: yes
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Gradle** — Optional: yes
- **Java** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **npm** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes
- **Scala** — Optional: yes
- **SQL** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes
- **Unix** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T21:09:31Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 85
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

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