Senior Director - Software Engineering

August 7

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Capella Space

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Earth observation data any time, in any weather with the most advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite technology.

Geospatial • Satellites • SAR • Imagery • Space

51 - 200

💰 $60M Venture Round on 2023-01

Description

• Capella Space provides reliable Earth imagery for defense & intelligence, disaster response, and environmental monitoring • Platform Engineering team builds, maintains, and improves software and systems for the Capella constellation • Directly interact with various engineers to develop and improve complex systems • Participate in on-call rotation for reliable performance in mission-critical operations • Leader in defining and executing engineering development plans and roadmaps

Requirements

• Past leadership experience mentoring and growing software engineering teams • Past experience working on a system with global 24/7/365 operational requirements • Ability to lead a geographically distributed & diverse team • Experience maintaining an engineering roadmap and leading prioritization of efforts across multiple projects • Excellent communications skills, ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, and enjoyment of learning from and teaching other teams new skills • Excellent foundations of software architecture, interface design, distributed systems, and testing patterns • Experience building and maintaining highly reliable software systems employing best practices in logging, monitoring, alerting, and reporting • Experience with modern Python & AWS best practices • Experience with DevOps, distributed system testing, CI/CD systems, release management, and site reliability engineering • Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful U.S. permanent resident, or lawful admitted as a refugee or granted asylum

Benefits

• Up to 100% paid medical coverage, with robust vision and dental plans • Equity • 401K Plan to invest in your long-term retirement planning • Generous Parental Leave • Flexible Paid Time Off Policy • Commuter & Parking Benefits • Mental Health Resources • Monthly phone stipend • Daily provided lunches and stocked kitchens • Dog-friendly work environment & pet insurance options