Senior Software Engineer - Space Reliability

Salary: £76,000 - 76,000 per year

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering, SRE, or DevOps experience
• Strong Python skills across backend services, data pipelines, and automation
• Real experience applying data analysis to solve complex operational or technical problems, with comfort working directly with data at every layer from pipeline design to query
• Solid Linux fundamentals, including bash scripting and basic system administration
• Experience with containerized development and production environments
• Communication skills to work across engineering, operations, and mission teams and translate real-world requirements into working software
• Experience with data backends such as Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, or S3
• Hands-on experience with Databricks or modern data Lakehouse tooling
• Experience building or operating monitoring and alerting systems such as Grafana, Prometheus, or Nagios
• 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

Responsibilities:

• Design and build fault detection, isolation, and automated recovery pipelines for satellites and ground stations
• Drive elimination of manual processes by automating repetitive work
• Build space situational awareness systems so the fleet always knows its own state
• Develop operational automation for mission execution at scale
• Architect and build a flexible data platform that ingests, stores, and surfaces telemetry from space and ground assets
• Build analytics and visualization tools that surface operational insight, not just raw data
• Apply ML and AI techniques to detect anomalies, predict failures, and optimize constellation performance
• Work directly with data at every layer from pipeline design to query
• Define and instrument SLOs and reliability metrics for space and ground assets
• Build monitoring and alerting systems that know what matters and 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

Technologies:

• AI
• Ansible
• Architect
• Backend
• Bash
• Cloud
• Databricks
• DevOps
• ElasticSearch
• Grafana
• Linux
• Network
• Prometheus
• Python
• Redis
• Terraform

More:

We are Spire, a space-to-cloud analytics company that improves life on Earth with data from space. We own and operate the largest multi-purpose constellation of satellites, supported by a global ground station network and 24/7 operations that provide real-time global coverage of every point on Earth. We offer a hybrid work model with a minimum of three business days per week in the office, along with global perks including our Name Your Satellite Program, launch attendance, generous time off, education assistance, employee assistance, employee stock purchase, family leave, fitness reimbursement, employee referral program, and healthy snacks and beverages in every office. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusive hiring and may require a background check for a conditional offer.

last updated 36 week of 2026