Software Engineering Manager, Muon Space
Software Platform
$210-234k
+ Equity Grant
3 days a week in office (San Jose, CA)
End-to-end space systems provider
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End-to-end space systems provider
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$210-234k
+ Equity Grant
3 days a week in office (San Jose, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make Earth Intelligence accessible to help protect our planet's people, climate and ecosystem.
Role
Who you are
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent industry experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years managing software engineering teams building and operating production systems
- Direct experience managing a platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE team, including responsibility for hiring, performance management, coaching senior engineers, and shaping team composition
- Strong technical background in distributed systems, backend services, or platform development, with hands-on depth in Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS
- Demonstrated experience supporting production systems with real uptime, reliability, and performance requirements (SLOs, on-call, incident response, postmortems)
- Track record of establishing paved roads / Golden Paths and treating internal platforms as products, with developers as customers
- Experience running a DevOps or SRE function embedded within a platform team (rather than as a separate silo), consistent with our team model
- Experience defining technical direction and driving execution through a team, including prioritization, roadmap ownership, and stakeholder alignment
- Strong communication skills and comfort partnering with cross-functional stakeholders across engineering, security, and IT/information systems
- Ability to hold clear ownership boundaries, comfortable saying "no" to work that belongs to product teams while still being a great partner to them
- We encourage you to apply, even if you don't check all the boxes, and we look forward to reviewing your application!
- This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. The Company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process
Desirable
- Hands-on experience with Bazel or another large-scale monorepo build system
- Experience leading data engineering or data platform work as part of a broader platform team
- Familiarity with Cloudflare, Artifactory, IAM/Okta, InfluxDB, or Grafana-based observability stacks
- Experience scaling a platform team through a period of rapid organizational growth
- Experience partnering closely with information security teams on platform-level controls (IAM, secrets management, supply chain)
- Familiarity with aerospace, satellite operations, or other high-reliability / mission-critical domains
What the job involves
- Muon seeks an Software Engineering Manager to lead our Software Platform team
- This team builds and operates the paved roads (CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, Bazel, AWS, IAM, data infrastructure, and more) that underpin both our internal tooling and the production systems behind customer-facing products such as Muon Mission Command
- The Software Platform team is critical to the overall growth and success of Muon's software engineering organization: as the number of product teams, services, and customers expands, the leverage this team creates, through reduced cognitive load, eliminated toil, and self-service Golden Paths, directly determines how fast the rest of engineering can move
- This manager will inherit a team of six engineers, and will be responsible for both scaling that team to meet current demand and evolving it into a product-minded platform organization whose customers are Muon's own developers
- Lead, mentor, and grow the Software Platform team. Own hiring, performance management, coaching, and team composition for a growing platform organization. Actively recruit engineers to meet the demands of a rapidly scaling software department
- Define team goals, and technical roadmaps that align with companies priorities
- Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of mission-critical services operating in production
- Work with cross-functional stakeholders to translate mission needs into clear requirements and technical specifications
- Drive engineering best practices including design reviews, code quality, testing, and observability
- Manage team capacity, staffing, and growth, including hiring, coaching, and performance development
- Promote a culture of technical ownership, continuous improvement, and pragmatic delivery
- Build feedback loops with developer-customers, prioritize based on real friction, and hold clear ownership boundaries so product teams retain accountability for their applications
Our take
Developing and operating satellites represents a significant challenge. Many organizations need accurate, space-based data but lack the resources or expertise to build their own spacecraft or manage the necessary ground systems and data processing.
To tackle this issue, Muon Space provides a service called Muon Halo. This allows customers to access satellite data without having to handle the technical details of satellite construction or operation. Muon offers end-to-end solutions, including building and launching satellites, managing operations, and processing collected data.
Muon has contracts with major customers like the US Air Force and US Space Force. It is supported by considerable funding that is being invested into scaling operations across satellite production, the deployment of its automated constellation operations platform, and expansion of its global ground station network.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2025
$44.5m
SERIES B
Aug 2024
$56.7m
SERIES B
Total funding: $146.2m
Company benefits
- 100% health, dental, and vision coverage for employees; 50% coverage for dependents (Concierge Medical offered through One Medical where available)
- Parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers
- Generous time off policy
- 401(k) plan through Betterment and equity management through Carta
- Fully stocked kitchen at our HQ and we cater lunch 3 days per week
- Dog-friendly office
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Pascal Stang
(CTO & Co-founder)Previously a Director of the Autonomous Vehicle Division at Lyft. Prior to that, they were a Flight Vehicle Area Tech Lead at Google and a Satellite Systems Architect at Terra Bella.
Dan McCleese
(Chief Scientist & Co-founder)Previously worked at NASA for over 23 years in a number of roles including Mars Climate Sounder/MRO, Principal Investigator and Chief Scientist. They also worked at Calltech as a Climate Modelling Alliance Project Manager.
Paul Day
(VP of Spacecraft Production & Co-founder)Previously the CPO at Loft Orbital. They also worked as an Engineering Program Manager at Apple and as a Technical Program Manager at Google.
Reuben Rohrschneider
(Chief Mission Architect & Co-founder)Graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a PhD in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering. Previously worked at Ball Aerospace for over 14 years as a Mission Systems Engineer then Principal Mission Systems and Architect Engineer.
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