Director of Software Engineering

Join Spire, a leading satellite data and analytics company, as the Director of Software Engineering. In this role, you will define and own the technical roadmap for autonomous constellation operations, set the architectural direction for the data platform, reliability systems, and automation infrastructure, and lead a team of world-class reliability and platform engineers. You will also have the opportunity to influence how Spire thinks about automation, data, and AI/ML across the broader engineering organization.

• Definir y ser responsable de la hoja de ruta técnica para las operaciones de constelaciones autónomas.
• Establecer la dirección arquitectónica para la plataforma de datos, los sistemas de confiabilidad y la infraestructura de automatización.
• Revisar el código, prototipar soluciones y profundizar en los detalles cuando sea necesario.
• Demonstrated track record building and shipping reliable production systems at scale. You have owned things that could not go down
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 in a technical leadership or staff-level individual contributor role
• Strong foundation in Python, distributed systems, data platforms, and cloud infrastructure
• Deep technical credibility. Engineers on your teams have respected your judgment and not just your title
• Experience with SRE principles, reliability engineering, or large-scale automation. You have reduced toil systematically and not just complained about it
• Experience hiring and developing engineers. You know what great looks like and how to find it
• The communication and influence skills to drive technical decisions across teams you do not directly control
• Experience writing performance software in Rust
• Experience applying AI/ML or advanced analytics to operational or monitoring problems
• Experience building data lakes, telemetry platforms, or observability infrastructure at scale
• Background in space systems, aerospace, or highly constrained real-time environments
• A history of leading teams through technical transformations and not just maintaining the status quo