💼 Full-Time Position

Director of Software Engineering

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Spire
📍 glasgow, scotland, United-Kingdom
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Location
glasgow, United-Kingdom
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Posted
May 31, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Spire is making a fundamental shift in how it operates its constellation. We are moving from a model where trained operators watch dashboards and escape to experts, to one where the system is fully autonomous, self‑healing, and data‑intelligent. This Director will lead that transformation. You will set the technical vision, define the architecture, build and inspire the team, and personally raise the standard for what modern space operations look like.

The old model relies on operators, escalations, manual processes, and institutional knowledge locked in the heads of a few experts. It does not scale and it does not belong in a modern space company. We know what we want to replace it with: SRE principles applied to a constellation, autonomous fault handling, AI‑driven anomaly detection, low toil, high data quality, and continuous improvement baked into the system.

What This Role Is Not

This is not a role for someone who wants to graduate out of technical ...