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Head of Software Engineering and Operations – Constellation Operations
| Company | Spire |
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| Location | Boulder, CO, USA |
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| Salary | $202000 – $238500 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- 5 years of experience in engineering as an individual contributor.
- 5 years leading engineering teams.
- Professional experience working in at least one interpreted language.
- Professional experience working in at least one compiled language.
Responsibilities
- Drive the development and execution of the roadmap across Application Services, Satellite Manufacturing and SRE-style Operations, and Infrastructure for cloud and big data.
- Interface with technical leads, Chief Software Engineer, and technical program managers to develop technical solutions to customer needs.
- Support the bottom-up ideation, creation, and curation of technical proposals that are core to Spire’s culture.
Preferred Qualifications
- Excellent ability to communicate verbally and in writing at all levels, from technical IC to C-level exec both internally and externally.
- Experience developing software for resource constrained environments like embedded ARM devices.
- Experience writing Python.
- Experience writing Rust.
- Previous experience running a team delivering an API-based product or product family.
- Experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and debugging operational application issues.
- In-depth knowledge of API design principles and best practices, caching strategies, and designing for resiliency and scalability.
- Strong relational and non-relational database skills.
