C Spire
Software Engineer - Space Reliability
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Sponsorship not specified$130k-$171kDetected 103 days ago
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About the role
- Software Engineer - Space Reliability Location: - Boulder - Colorado - United States Department: - Engineering Share: - - - Spire is making a fundamental shift in how it operates its constellation.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Design and build fault detection, isolation, and automated recovery pipelines for satellites and ground stations
- Drive elimination of manual processes. If a human is doing it repeatedly, automate it.
- Build space situational awareness systems so the fleet always knows its own state
- Develop operational automation for mission execution at scale
- Build monitoring and alerting systems that know what matters and ruthlessly suppress noise
- Own configuration control and software rollout processes for on-orbit and ground assets
- Build real-time dashboards and operator tooling that make mission status immediately legible
- Collaborate directly with satellite operators and mission teams to turn operational pain into software solutions
- Design systems for automated mission execution including planning, scheduling, and commanding at scale
- Spire Global is a space-to-cloud analytics company that owns and operates the largest multi-purpose constellation of satellites.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering, SRE, or DevOps experience
- Experience with containerized development and production environments
- To help maintain a safe and secure workplace for Spire employees, all candidates who receive a conditional offer will be required to complete a background check.
Nice to have
- Experience with data backends such as Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, or S3
- Hands-on experience with Databricks or modern data Lakehouse tooling
- Infrastructure as Code experience with tools such as Terraform or Ansible
- ML or AI applications in an operational or monitoring context
- Experience with Python data visualization libraries
- Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law poster
- "EEO is the Law" Poster Supplement
- Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision poster
Compensation
- $130,000 - $171,000 USD
- Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision poster
Benefits
- 🌴 Generous Time Off Policy
- 🎓 Education Assistance Program
- 📈 Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- 👣 Family Leave
- 💪 Fitness Reimbursement
- In addition to its constellation, Spire's data infrastructure includes a global ground station network and 24/7 operations that provide real-time global coverage of every point on Earth.
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