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Staff Software Engineer, Ground Software

Relativity Space

Long Beach, CA · Senior

$181,000 – $271,000

Listed on Relativity Space’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

This role leads the frontend platform powering Relativity Space's rocket factory and launch operations software, owning the operator UI, design system, and shared infrastructure that other teams build upon. It's suited to a senior engineer with deep expertise in React and TypeScript who thrives on high-impact, cross-functional work and can architect systems handling real-time, safety-critical hardware telemetry at scale.

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What they ask for

Required

  • 8+ years building production web applications
  • Deep TypeScript and React expertise
  • Track record owning a frontend platform, design system, or large shared codebase
  • Strong frontend performance profiling and render optimization skills
  • Experience architecting state management and data flow for data-intensive applications
  • Ability to set cross-team architecture and technical direction
  • Mentor senior engineers

Nice to have

  • Real-time data visualization or charting experience
  • Industrial control, SCADA, or hardware-in-the-loop experience
  • Familiarity with binary streaming protocols like WebSockets and protobuf
  • Experience offloading work to Web Workers
  • Experience with monorepo build systems like Bazel
  • Experience embedding code editors like Monaco

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