Relativity Space

Relativity Space

Sr Software Engineer, Full Stack

Long Beach, California · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$154k-$230kDetected 6 days ago
TypeScriptPythonGoReactFull-Stack DevelopmentPostgreSQLRedshiftAWSKubernetesTerraformSparkdbtData AnalysisAvionicsCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • Solve complex problems with simple solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity.
  • Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven't been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up.
  • Whether you're in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you'll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time.
  • advancing Terran R toward launch and building the foundation for long-term impact.
  • Today, that means partnering directly with teams across design, materials, manufacturing, and test and launch to design, implement, and deploy end user enterprise-wide applications, industrial automation, data analytics infrastructure, and next-generation AI to solve real problems and accelerate progress.
  • Experience designing and scaling service architectures that support high-performance front-end operations.
  • Demonstrated experience developing low-latency, safety-critical front-ends.
  • Experience developing, debugging, and shipping software products on large code bases that span platforms and tools.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related Engineering field (Computer, Software, Electrical, Aerospace).
  • 7+ years of experience building, shipping, and iterating on multiple apps and services in your career so far.
  • Experience designing in collaboration with non-software stakeholders.
  • Nice to haves but not required:
  • Experience with systems-level programming like synchronization primitives, memory management, etc.

Skills

  • Python, React, Typescript, Go.
  • Spark, Iceberg, Duckdb, Redshift, DBT, Postgres, Mongo.
  • AWS, Kubernetes (both cloud and on-prem), Terraform, Helm.
  • Expert in front-end frameworks (React) and related tools.

Compensation

  • Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more!
  • $154,000 - $230,000 USD

Benefits

  • Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more!
  • Now is a unique moment in time where it's early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum.
  • is only one part of our total rewards package.
  • To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.

Company info

  • Relativity Space is on a mission to better connect humanity to space and the universe beyond our planet.
  • With decades of experience scaling world-class technology organizations like Google, CEO Eric Schmidt is guiding Relativity into its next phase: advancing Terran R toward launch and building the foundation for long-term impact.
  • The Terrestrial Software team is building the foundation for an automated rocket factory and integrated launch platform.
  • Their mission is to automate and streamline workflows across the entire lifecycle of Terran R, from raw material intake to launch operations and eventually manufacturing on Mars.
  • Long term, the team is laying the groundwork for a modular, scalable software platform that can power highly autonomous operations on Earth and beyond.
  • This is a team for builders and thinkers who thrive on cross-functional impact and want to shape the digital backbone of our future in space.
  • With decades of experience scaling world-class technology organizations like
  • At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices.
  • At Relativity Space, we're building rockets to serve today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs.
  • Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level.

This listing is sourced directly from Relativity Space's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.