Production Software Engineer - RFGL/SIGINT on AWS

Spire; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NYSP—Name Your Satellite Program

Launch Attendance

Generous Time Off Policy

Education Assistance Program

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Family Leave

Fitness Reimbursement

Healthy snacks & beverages

Job summary

Spire Global is hiring a Software Engineer to join the US-focused RFGL/SIGINT product team. You will deploy and maintain production RFGL software on AWS, build data pipelines, and develop observability tools necessary for mission‑critical space systems.

The role emphasizes production reliability and collaboration with a senior engineer in a regulated environment. Ideal candidates have 2–5 years of software experience, strong Python, Linux skills, and a customer‑focused mindset.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of professional software engineering experience
• Demonstrated hands‑on experience with AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, IAM, or similar services) – this is critical
• Proficiency in Python for scripting, automation, data processing, and backend tooling
• Solid Linux fundamentals (administration, bash scripting, system troubleshooting)
• Experience building or maintaining production systems with a focus on reliability, monitoring, and operational excellence
• Strong communication skills and comfort working collaboratively in a small team under senior guidance

Responsibilities

• Deploy, maintain, and monitor RFGL and SIGINT software products in AWS production environments, ensuring high availability and performance for real customers
• Build and improve data handling pipelines, integrations with internal systems, and customer‑facing data delivery platforms
• Develop tooling and automation for production monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability
• Support satellite tasking operations and command workflows that enable RF geolocation missions
• Investigate and resolve bugs, performance issues, or enhancement needs in satellite payload software and infrastructure
• Collaborate with the senior software engineer and cross‑functional teams to implement improvements that enhance reliability and capability
• Contribute to infrastructure automation, CI/CD processes, and secure deployment practices in a regulated environment

Skills

AWS

Python

Linux

Production systems

Team collaboration

Communication

Containerization

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK stack

Spark

Kafka

Databricks

S3

Job description

Spire Global is hiring a Software Engineer to join the US-focused RFGL/SIGINT product team. You will deploy and maintain production RFGL software on AWS, build data pipelines, and develop observability tools necessary for mission‑critical space systems.

The role emphasizes production reliability and collaboration with a senior engineer in a regulated environment. Ideal candidates have 2–5 years of software experience, strong Python, Linux skills, and a customer‑focused mindset.