Director of Software Engineering, Spire Global
$171-202.5k
+ Commissions and annual equity awards & Employee Stock Purchase Program
3+ days a week in office (Boulder, CO)
Provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services
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Provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$171-202.5k
+ Commissions and annual equity awards & Employee Stock Purchase Program
3+ days a week in office (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
- 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. You have owned things that could not go down
- 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
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- We need a director who writes code, reviews architecture, challenges technical decisions, and earns the team's respect through demonstrated craft and not just tenure or title
- 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, and hold the team to them
- Be the person engineers come to when the problem is genuinely hard
- Recruit, develop, and retain a team of 6 to 10 world-class reliability and platform engineers
- Set the pace, tone, and ambition for the team and make being on it feel like a privilege
- Create an environment where engineers grow fast, own their work, and ship things they are proud of
- Identify gaps and level up engineers through mentorship and not just management
- 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
- Influence how Spire thinks about automation, data, and AI/ML across the broader engineering organization
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
$19.7m
GRANT
Total funding: $202.7m
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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