Sr. Network Edge Engineer (Starlink)

Responsibilities

• Define and develop projects, milestones, and maintain roadmaps, practicing flexible prioritization and scope management to deliver on program directives
• Lead the strategic evaluation and analysis of peering and transit opportunities, balancing cost efficiency, performance, and routing control across dozens of global markets
• Interact with key stakeholders to identify their desired outcomes, take their inputs and deliver improvements to Peering owned processes
• Build and maintain technical and commercial relationships with global peering partners. Use existing deep industry connections to accelerate execution
• Design and maintain peering policies, including traffic management, route filtering, redundancy planning, and failover strategies
• Collaborate with diverse teams across Starlink to ensure seamless integration of peering implementation
• Lead global IX strategy, including location selection, capacity planning, and onboarding of new interconnects
• Work with partner teams to automate and operationalize interconnection workflows, including route validation, telemetry, incident response, and lifecycle tracking

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in network infrastructure (peering, interconnection engineering, backbone architecture)
• Experience working with: BGP, IP routing & network telemetry
• Experience with IXPs (Internet exchange point), colocation environments, optical transport, and traffic engineering strategies

Preferred Skills And Experience

• 10+ years of experience designing, building, and optimizing internet interconnects and peering systems
• Experience identifying, negotiating, and executing legal agreements/requirements
• Experience with building systems to support and maintain peering/interconnections
• Extensive professional network within the global ISP, IXP, and content distribution community
• Experience building real-time monitoring and alerting systems for interconnect performance and routing anomalies
• Familiarity with Starlink-style distributed systems and the intersection of terrestrial and orbital network layers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including technical documentation and stakeholder reporting

Additional Requirements

• Willingness to do some travel (10-15%) domestically and globally if needed
• Availability for on-call rotations
• Willingness to work extended hours as needed

Pay Range

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS: Network Engineer/Senior: $160,000.00 - $225,000.00/per year

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 your total rewards package at SpaceX. You may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock, stock options, or long-term cash awards, as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

You will also receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, and various other discounts and perks.

You may also accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and will be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year.

Employees in Washington State accrue paid sick time in compliance with state and federal law.

Company shuttles are offered to employees for roundtrip travel from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office Monday to Friday.