Web Developer SpaceX

Web Developer
Avionics - Software Development | Hawthorne, CA, United States
The Company
SpaceX is a US based space technology company founded by its residing CEO and CTO, Elon Musk, the former co-founder of PayPal. The company's goal is to renew a sense of excellence in the space industry by disrupting the current paradigm of complacency and replacing it with innovation and commercialized price points; laying the foundation for a truly space-faring human civilization.
SpaceX builds rockets and spacecraft from the ground up; including electronics, software, vehicle structures, and engines. In-house development includes nearly all flight critical custom components amounting to approximately 85% of our vehicles both by mass and by value. Our development and production efforts represent some of the most dynamic and challenging technology problems seen in any organization.
Our success is driven by a wide variety of engineering perspectives and openness to all great ideas. We pride ourselves on being a meritocracy where employees are defined by their capabilities and contributions, instead of title or tenure. We are actively seeking the best and brightest minds from all industries to continue to build our world class team.
Our employees thrive in a fast-paced engineering ecosystem focused on innovation and high levels of personal responsibility. At SpaceX we cut through the noise and believe in the essentials of hardcore engineering.
We build it, test it, and fly it.
The Department
The Simulation and Data Management team has an opening for a developer to build advanced web-based data management and visualization applications. SpaceX seeks to develop highly responsive and highly scalable data management and visualization systems to optimize our responsiveness in test, launch, and mission operations. Solving this problem requires efficient management of terabytes of telemetry and making this telemetry easily accessible to the internal users within SpaceX. The ideal candidate will be an expert in the development of front-end web application development and design using the latest web interface technologies.
The Job
Responsibilities:

• Take responsibility for the design, development, testing and deployment of mission-critical web-based data management systems
• Work with other technical groups throughout the company to discover user needs, and enhance the data management platform to meet these needs

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science or related field
• Several years of professional web development experience
• Expert-level knowledge of JavaScript
• Expert-level knowledge of HTML and CSS
• Be self-managed, proactive and flexible
• Basic understanding of web design aesthetics is required

Preferred Skills:

• Knowing your way around Linux and Linux command line tools
• Experience using jQuery, Django and Memcached
• Experience programming in Python and C++
• Experience with web testing frameworks

SpaceX offers one of the best environments in the world for employees to learn, build real working systems and tackle exciting challenges every day. We operate in a fun, casual work environment and have great benefits including: competitive salary, stock options, medical/dental insurance and free gym memberships. By joining the SpaceX team, you are not just a part of history, you are making it.
SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should notify the Human Resource Department at (310) 363-6000.
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Location:	Hawthorne, CA United States