Director of Software Engineering

Director of Software Engineering focuses on 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 in a technical leadership or staff-level individual contributor role.

Skills and requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 in a technical leadership or staff-level individual contributor role.
• Demonstrated track record building and shipping reliable production systems at scale. You have owned things that could not go down.
• Experience hiring and developing engineers. You know what great looks like and how to find it.
• The communication and influence skills to drive technical decisions across teams you do not directly control.

Confirmed role details

• Spire is making a fundamental shift in how it operates its constellation.

Additional role context

• If your ideal week is back-to-back 1:1s, sprint ceremonies, and stakeholder syncs, this is not the right fit.
• Establish engineering standards across code quality, system design, testing, and observability, and hold the team to them.
• Develop, and retain a team of 6 to 10 world-class reliability and platform engineers.