Hiring: Director of Software Engineering Company: Spire Location: Boulder, CO Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 11:04:16 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Python, Rust, Systems Design 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: •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 Qualifications: •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. •Strong foundation in Python, distributed systems, data platforms, and cloud infrastructure •The communication and influence skills to drive technical decisions across teams you do not directly control •Background in space systems, aerospace, or highly constrained real-time environments •A history of leading teams through technical transformations and not just maintaining the status quo •Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three days per week in the office. •Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying. 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!