Hiring: Director of Software Engineering Company: Spire Government Location: Boulder, CO Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 18:01:43 Target Skills & Keywords : Go, Make, Python, TestNG About the job Experience: •7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 in a technical leadership or staff-level individual contributor role Required Skills: •Spire is making a fundamental shift in how it operates its constellation. We are moving from a model where trained operators watch dashboards and escalate to experts, to one where the system is fully autonomous, self-healing, and data intelligent. This Director will lead that transformation. You will set the technical vision, define the architecture, build and inspire the team, and personally raise the standard for what modern space operations look like. •The old model relies on operators, escalations, manual processes, and institutional knowledge locked in the heads of a few experts. It does not scale and it does not belong in a modern space company. We know what we want to replace it with: SRE principles applied to a constellation, autonomous fault handling, AI-driven anomaly detection, low toil, high data quality, and continuous improvement baked into the system. •What This Role Is Not •This is not a role for someone who wants to graduate out of technical work. If your ideal week is back-to-back 1:1s, sprint ceremonies, and stakeholder syncs, this is not the right fit. 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. •What You Will Work On •Technical Leadership •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 •Team Building & Culture •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 Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!