Software Engineer, Services Platform

About the role

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 making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.
SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER, SERVICES PLATFORM

As a Software Engineer, Services Platform at SpaceXSI, you'll build the platform-level primitives that make it hard for product teams to build brittle systems and easy to build resilient ones. SpaceXSI is scaling fast, hundreds of engineers shipping to millions of developers, and your core focus will be the abstractions that make that sustainable: service provisioning, deploy tooling, workflow orchestration, and defining what it means to own and operate a service at SpaceXSI. You'll work at the intersection of developer experience and production reliability, building the golden pathways that every engineering team runs on.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Establish durable workflow orchestration as a first-class platform: defining best practices, building shared abstractions, and creating the standard that every team uses for reliable, long-running workflows

• Design a declarative service configuration framework that makes it trivial to provision, deploy, and operate new services, so spinning up a new backend goes from days to minutes

• Define the contract for service ownership: what it means to own a service, how services integrate with SpaceXSI's infrastructure abstractions, and how the service catalogue is built so incidents get resolved in minutes, not hours

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience building internal developer platforms, service frameworks, or infrastructure abstractions that other engineers depend on

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experience working extensively with Temporal, durable workflow engines, or similar orchestration systems and strong opinions on best practices

• Care deeply about developer experience. You think about how other engineers interact with your systems and design for simplicity and correctness by default

• Experience with deployment tooling, CI/CD pipelines, or service mesh architectures

• Understand the tradeoffs in microservice vs. monolith architectures and can help teams navigate service decomposition pragmatically

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and enjoying shipping production systems that make the entire organization more productive

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach out to schedule 2-3 short technicals. After, we'll schedule an onsite in our office, where you'll work on a small project, discuss ideas, and meet the team

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

Annual Salary:

$140,000 - $225,000 USD

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.