7 hours ago
Base Salary
$171k - $203k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and improve AWS-based backend services for availability, fault tolerance, performance, and scale.
- Design and implement authentication and authorization using OIDC, OAuth 2.0, token handling, service-to-service authentication, and access control.
- Develop and maintain REST APIs and streaming or real-time endpoints for weather and aviation data.
- Improve metrics, logging, tracing, observability, and SLO tracking for owned services.
- Participate in production operations, on-call rotations, incident response, and postmortems.
- Apply secure engineering practices and support compliance with NIST and ISO/IEC 27001 standards.
- Lead projects from technical design through rollout and mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, and design discussions.
- Contribute to testing, deployment, infrastructure-as-code, change management, documentation, and architecture practices.
- Collaborate with product owners and data scientists to align backend services with customer and mission needs.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of professional backend software development experience, including substantial experience operating and scaling production systems.
- Demonstrated success improving system reliability, uptime, incident rates, and capacity as usage grows.
- Strong hands-on AWS experience, including services such as ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, and VPC networking.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation.
- Strong knowledge of OIDC and OAuth 2.0, identity providers, JWT handling, and secure session and token management.
- Experience designing and operating REST APIs and streaming or real-time data endpoints.
- Experience working under NIST or ISO/IEC 27001 security standards.
- Proficiency in Python or another backend language such as Go, Java, or TypeScript/Node.js.
- Strong documentation, collaboration, communication, and architectural decision-making skills.
- Preferred experience with the Pangeo ecosystem, xarray, Dask, Zarr, Jupyter, or other scientific and geospatial data tooling.
- Preferred weather or aviation experience, including GRIB2, NetCDF, METAR/TAF, ADS-B, or FAA regulatory contexts.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office.
- Base salary range of $171,000—$202,500 USD, plus eligibility for commissions and annual equity awards.
- Employee benefits include vacation, sick and personal time off; optional medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage; a 401(k); wellness reimbursement; and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Additional perks include education assistance, family leave, fitness reimbursement, employee assistance, referral programs, launch attendance, and office snacks and beverages.
- Spire will arrange required licenses for access to US export-controlled software or technology.
- Global perks include the Name Your Satellite Program and generous time off.
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About Spire
Spire builds and operates a global constellation of small satellites that capture radio-frequency data to power maritime (AIS), aviation (ADS-B), and weather intelligence products. It sells data feeds, APIs, analytics, and Space-as-a-Service missions to enterprises and government customers. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, Spire is a public company (NYSE: SPIR) with operations across North America, Europe, and Asia.