Director of Software Engineering

About the company

Spire Global — space-to-cloud analytics company operating the largest multi-purpose constellation of satellites.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the technical roadmap for autonomous constellation operations
• Set architectural direction for data platform, reliability systems and automation infrastructure
• Stay hands-on: review code, prototype solutions, get into details
• Establish engineering standards across code quality, system design, testing and observability
• Recruit, develop and retain a team of 6 to 10 reliability and platform engineers
• Lead the shift from manual, operator-driven processes to fully automated and self-healing operations
• Define and drive toward SLOs, error budgets and reliability targets
• Partner with satellite operations and mission teams to translate pain into software solutions
• Be the technical voice in company-wide conversations about architecture and platform strategy

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, at least 3 in technical leadership or staff-level IC role
• Track record building and shipping reliable production systems at scale
• Deep technical credibility
• Experience with SRE principles, reliability engineering or large-scale automation
• Strong foundation in Python, distributed systems, data platforms and cloud infrastructure
• Experience hiring and developing engineers
• Communication and influence skills across teams

Preferred

• Experience applying AI/ML or advanced analytics to operational or monitoring problems
• Experience writing performance software in Rust
• Background in space systems, aerospace or constrained real-time environments
• Experience building data lakes, telemetry platforms or observability infrastructure at scale
• History of leading teams through technical transformations

Conditions

• Hybrid work model: minimum 3 days per week in the office
• Base salary range: $171,000 – $202,500 USD
• Eligible for commissions, annual equity awards and benefits program (medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(K), wellness reimbursement, ESPP)