Software Engineer - X Developer Platform at SpaceXAI
Palo Alto, CA
$180,000–$440,000from the description
Aug 5, 2026
Palo Alto, CA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software engineering role on the Developer Platform team responsible for building and maintaining the API suite that exposes platform data and functionality to external developers and automated agents. The work spans high-scale distributed backend systems, API design, and developer tooling, processing hundreds of billions of signals daily. Suited to engineers with distributed systems experience who want to shape a large, commercially critical API platform.
Senior level · 5+ years · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 6, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The posting lists both an MS and BS as acceptable degrees under Basic Qualifications; BS (Bachelors) is captured as the minimum.
Kafka is explicitly called out as 'a plus' within the Distributed Systems requirement, so it is marked preferred.
AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are listed together as examples of cloud platforms under Basic Qualifications — treated as a single hard-gate requirement with the named alternatives captured accordingly.
No work location is specified in the posting; the CBSA is left blank. The company appears US-based but no city or state is stated.
The compensation range ($180,000–$440,000) is unusually wide, likely reflecting equity-heavy total comp or multiple internal levels mapped to a single external posting.
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