Muon Space

Software Engineering Manager, Software Platform

San Jose, CA · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$210k-$234kDetected 6 days ago

Distributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentAWSKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGrafanaDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringRESTData EngineeringIncident ResponseSupply ChainPerformance ManagementCommunicationMentoringRemote Sensing

About the role

This position is hybrid and requires working on-site in our San Jose, CA office three days per week.
The Software Platform team is critical to the overall growth and success of

Responsibilities

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.
Drive engineering best practices including design reviews, code quality, testing, and observability.
Manage team capacity, staffing, and growth, including hiring, coaching, and performance development.
Lead, mentor, and grow the Software Platform team.
Own hiring, performance management, coaching, and team composition for a growing platform organization.
Founded in 2021, Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission-critical data.
Our revolutionary, integrated technology stack enables customers to optimize every dimension of their missions for faster time-to-orbit and superior constellation remote sensing performance.

Requirements

BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent industry experience.
Demonstrated experience supporting production systems with real uptime, reliability, and performance requirements (SLOs, on-call, incident response, postmortems).
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.
Hands-on experience with Bazel or another large-scale monorepo build system.
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.
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.
Track record of establishing paved roads / Golden Paths and treating internal platforms as products, with developers as customers.
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.
Nice-to-have Skills
Experience leading data engineering or data platform work as part of a broader platform team.

Compensation

The salary range for this role is $210,000 - $234,000, plus a competitive equity grant and comprehensive benefits package.
Final compensation will be determined based on skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location as assessed during the interview process.
At Muon salary is only part of our total compensation package.
In addition to salary, full-time employees receive equity compensation as well as benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, short & long term disability and life insurance.

Benefits

Our state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Silicon Valley is optimized for manufacturing spacecraft and rapid, flexible payload integration at scale.
We also offer three weeks paid vacation for new employees, along with 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time and paid parental leave.
We believe in equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

Company info

Build feedback loops with developer-customers, prioritize based on real friction, and hold clear ownership boundaries so product teams retain accountability for their applications.
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.

Equal opportunity

In addition, if you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.

Visa & Work Authorization

We believe in equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or gender identity

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