Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Spire Global
$130-171k
Office located in Boulder, CO
Provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services
Job no longer available
Provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$130-171k
Office located in Boulder, CO
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To provide customers with comprehensive data and analytics that protect our environment and our communities, transform global logistics, contribute to economic stability, and put moonshot goals within reach.
Role
Who you are
- 2–3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or a similar role
- Strong experience with AWS and Kubernetes, especially EKS
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines
- Comfortable troubleshooting distributed systems and production issues
- Working knowledge of observability tooling and concepts such as metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
- Ability to write code or libraries in one or more general-purpose languages to support developer workflows
- Good communication skills and a customer-focused mindset
- Comfortable collaborating frequently with a variety of infrastructure, IT, security and application teams
Desirable
- Experience with cost optimization in AWS or Kubernetes environments
- Experience with ArgoCD or similar GitOps tools
- Experience with Grafana ecosystem tooling
- Familiarity with policy and admission control tools like Gatekeeper
- Experience with Kubernetes networking or traffic policy tools like Calico
- Experience supporting internal developer platforms or platform product teams
- Experience with Open-Telemetry or application instrumentation patterns
- Certification as an AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Certified CloudOps Engineer is an asset
What the job involves
- Due to increased demand, we’re looking to hire a Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineer to join our team supporting our internal developer platform built on AWS. This is a hands-on role for someone with a few years of relevant experience who wants to grow in platform engineering, cloud operations, observability, and developer experience
- This role is a good fit for someone who wants to grow beyond day-to-day platform support and into a broader platform engineering career. You’ll have exposure to both infrastructure and developer workflows, with a chance to make a real impact on cloud cost, platform reliability, and developer productivity
- You’ll partner closely with Infrastructure, Security, IT, and Spire’s software development teams to improve how our platform runs, how our developers ship software, and how efficiently we spend it on AWS
- Lead analysis of AWS spend across both platform-owned infrastructure and developer team workloads
- Identify cost optimization opportunities and help implement changes that reduce spend without sacrificing reliability or developer experience
- Support migration of existing workloads onto our newest internal developer platform
- Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve platform issues raised by internal customers, primarily software developers and IT/Security engineers
- Perform regular maintenance, upgrades, and improvements across platform services and tooling
- Help build and maintain code libraries, templates, and integrations that make it easier for application teams to instrument and observe their systems
- Work with platform observability and delivery tooling across:
- AWS EKS
- AWS networking (VPC, subnets, TGW, load balancers, routing) and security (Security Groups, NACLs)
- GitHub and GitHub Actions
- ArgoCD
- JFrog Artifactory and X-Ray
- Grafana Enterprise, Alloy, Mimir, Tempo
- OpenSearch
- Karpenter
- Calico
- Gatekeeper
- OpenCost
Our take
There’s been an increasing focus on big data in recent years, and Spire Global aims to lead the field in the biggest data of all - Earth Intelligence - with its suite of satellites collecting data from beneath the Earth’s surface to the edge of the atmosphere.
It identifies three main areas of use for its data - Aviation, Maritime, and Weather. Its capabilities in these fields include providing over 660M position reports each day for the aviation industry, building intelligent routing and tracking systems for maritime shipping, and supplying in-depth weather forecasting and climate impact analysis.
Beyond this, Spire Global's satellite system has countless other applications, such as real-time observation in active conflicts, and wildfire tracking. Operating in a rapidly developing market for space-based data, Spire continues to expand its satellite network and capaibilities as demand for global monitoring and environmental intelligence grows.
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Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Aug 2024
$4.7m
GRANT
Sep 2019
$19.5m
GRANT
Total funding: $202.5m
Company benefits
- Name your own satellite: Be remembered throughout time by choosing a name for a LEMUR satellite.
- Family Leave: Family is important. Our parental and family leave is designed to let you make the most of those precious moments.
- Learning & development: Spire more than encourages and supports ongoing personal improvement and a growth mindset, we welcome it!
- Launch Attendance: One of the perks from launching satellites into space is that Spire often has VIP access to view the launch.
- Generous time off policy: Take the time you need. Our flexible time-off policy promotes a positive work-life balance.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Our EAP makes sure you have access to support and counseling sessions whenever you need it.
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP): Our ESPP provides eligible employees with an opportunity to purchase Spire shares through accumulated contributions.
- Fitness Reimbursement: Spire encourages fitness activity to promote employee well-being with reimbursed gym membership expenses.
- Employee Referral Program: Spire is always looking for outstanding people to join our team, and you can help and be awarded a referral bonus.
- Healthy snacks & beverages: To help our employees to be as productive as possible, we provide healthy snacks and beverages in each of our offices.
Company HQ
Tysons, VA
Leadership
Theresa Condor
(CEO)Theresa has been with Spire since 2013, initially joining as a GM of Space service and Earth Intelligence, before becoming COO in 2021 and CEO in 2025.
Alison Engel
(CFO)Prior to joining Spire Global in 2025, Alison spent over 2 years at LeaseAccelerator as the CFO. She also spent over 5 years at Gannet as a VP of Finance and Senior VP/CFO & Treasurer.
Celia Pelaz
(COO)Prior to joining Spire Global in 2025, Celia spent nearly 8 years at HENSOLDT in various roles, including CSO and COO.
Johann Gabriel Oehme
(CTO)Johann joined Spire Global in 2025 as Chief Transformation Officer, moving into the role of Chief Technology Officer later in the same year. Previously, he spent 4 years at Aerotech Peissenberg as a Managing Director & CCO. He also spent 22 years at Airbus, holding various roles including VP of A350 Customer & Business Development and VP Head of Programme Procurement.
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