# Operations Development Engineer (Starlink) at SpaceX

> United States · Unspecified · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Aspacex%3A8864584002 (read 2026-11-05).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [SpaceX](https://alderhq.app/companies/spacex)
- Location text: Redmond, WA; Redmond, WA
- Where it can be done from (inferred): United States (evidence: "Location: Redmond, WA; Redmond, WA")
- Posted: 2026-10-14 (23 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-03 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://boards.greenhouse.io/spacex/jobs/8864584002?gh_jid=8864584002
- Skills listed (inferred): Python, PostgreSQL, SQL, Distributed systems

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- Market band for similar posted roles (Seattle, n 188): p25 $125k, median $145k, p75 $168k
- H-1B filings at this company for similar roles, FY26: 23, median offered wage $140k ([US DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance))

## Description (the employer's text)

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.

OPERATIONS DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER (STARLINK)

As an Operations Development Engineer, you will be responsible for engineering the operational systems and processes used to support the Starlink network as it scales to millions of users around the globe. Join the team operating the network that is revolutionizing global connectivity and internet access. A successful Operations Development Engineer will create the tools, technology and processes to maintain, operate and evolve the most advanced network in the solar system. You will utilize operational data to identify and prioritize various improvements that improve our operational efficiency and maintain the overall health of operations. You will work with subsystem responsible engineers, software engineers, and network engineers to develop alerts, mitigations, and terrestrial assets and drive improvements to core Starlink systems. Through continuous improvement, you will drive process and automation upgrades to the point of minimal manual intervention. You will be responsible for the complete lifecycle of the projects you own, including development, testing, 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
BASIC 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
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

- 2+ years of experience developing software, automation, processes, or projects in a rapidly changing, highly demanding environment, with the ability to run these projects independently
- Experience designing or implementing operational systems that other operators use (procedures, automation, alerting, or internal tooling)
- Strong system design and first-principles problem solving, with a focus on operations at scale
- Familiarity with operational open-source technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, PostgreSQL, and workflow orchestration

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