Software Engineer - X Data Engineering

SpaceXSI is hiring a Data Engineer for the X product engineering team. The role builds and operates data solutions, pipelines, datasets, and internal tooling, and partners with product and business teams to improve data quality and support product decisions.

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• Beyond your network
• Nadeem Hussein
• Software Engineering Data Specialist
• From your previous company
• Ika J.
• Datacenter Linux Systems Administrator
• Previously@Tata Consultancy Services
• from your School
• Lauren Maund

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate production-grade realtime and batch pipelines that ingest, process, validate, and deliver data powering user-behavior insights and product decisions
• Create shared datasets, fact tables, and internal data products that let other teams analyze, debug, and improve product performance
• Prototype and build tooling that automates and accelerates internal data workflows — backfills, dashboards, report generation, and self-serve access to data
• Own data correctness end to end: validate with output invariants, denominator reconciliation, and independent recomputation, and lead root-cause investigations when key metrics move unexpectedly
• Move fluidly across query engines and frameworks (e.g., BigQuery, Trino, Clickhouse for analytics; Flink, Kafka, Spark/Scalding for streaming and batch), choosing the right tool and adapting quickly to new infrastructure and environments
• Partner across product and business teams to surface where data gaps exist and prioritize the highest-impact opportunities for new data acquisition and improvement
• Iterate quickly on feedback, shipping the smallest useful increment with a strong bias toward efficient, accurate, and reliable solutions

Preferred

• ideally in data engineering or distributed systems

Benefits

• Equity
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
• Short & long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Various other discounts and perks
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Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Hands-on expertise in Python, Rust, Scala, Go or Java, and data pipeline toolings and distributed systems
• Knowledge of realtime and batch data processing tools such as Spark/Kafka/Flink/SQL and various storage systems in RMDBs/NoSQL
• Experience solving large scale problems and comfortable doing incremental quality work while building brand new systems to enable future quality improvements
• Proven records of interpreting product requirements into engineering implementation plans, and effectively communicating with different groups (AI, product, marketing/sales and engineering)
• Ideally in data engineering or distributed systems

Required skills

• Distributed Systems, Flink, Go, Java, Kafka, NoSQL, Python, Relational Databases, Rust, SQL, Scala, Spark

Preferred skills

• ideally in data engineering or distributed systems

Experience

• 3+ years