About the company
Spire Global is a space-to-cloud analytics company that owns and operates the largest multi-purpose constellation of satellites.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the technical roadmap for autonomous constellation operations.
- Set the architectural direction for the data platform, reliability systems, and automation infrastructure.
- Stay hands-on: review code, prototype solutions, and get into the details when it matters.
- Establish engineering standards across code quality, system design, testing, and observability.
- Recruit, develop, and retain a team of 6 to 10 world-class 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 for the constellation.
- Partner with satellite operations and mission teams to translate pain into software solutions.
- Be the technical voice of the team in company-wide conversations about architecture, infrastructure, and platform strategy.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 in a technical leadership or staff-level individual contributor role.
- Demonstrated 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.
- The communication and influence skills to drive technical decisions across teams.
Conditions
- Spire operates a hybrid work model, requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office.
- Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required.