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 establish engineering standards across code quality, system design, testing, and observability. You will also recruit, develop, and retain a team of world-class reliability and platform engineers, lead the shift from manual to fully automated operations, and be the technical voice of the team in company-wide conversations about architecture, infrastructure, and platform strategy.

• Definir y ser responsable de la hoja de ruta técnica para las operaciones de constelación autónoma.
• Establecer la dirección arquitectónica para la plataforma de datos, los sistemas de confiabilidad y la infraestructura de automatización.
• Reclutar, desarrollar y retener un equipo de ingenieros de confiabilidad y plataforma de clase mundial.

• 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
• Strong foundation in Python, distributed systems, data platforms, and cloud infrastructure
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 in a technical leadership or staff-level individual contributor role
• 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
• Demonstrated track record building and shipping reliable production systems at scale. You have owned things that could not go down
• Experience applying AI/ML or advanced analytics to operational or monitoring problems
• Experience writing performance software in Rust
• Background in space systems, aerospace, or highly constrained real-time environments
• Experience building data lakes, telemetry platforms, or observability infrastructure at scale
• A history of leading teams through technical transformations and not just maintaining the status quo