Capella Space is hiring a
Senior Director, Software Engineering

Summary

The job is for a Senior Director of Software Engineering in the Platform Engineering team at Capella Space, a company specializing in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite technology. The role involves leading software engineering teams, defining and prioritizing tasks, providing technical vision, and maintaining a 24/7/365 operational system. The ideal candidate should have leadership experience, past work on systems with global 24/7/365 requirements, excellent communication skills, and experience with Python & AWS.

Requirements

• Past leadership experience mentoring and growing software engineering teams
• Past experience working on a system with a 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 (all our components are Python in AWS)
• Experience with (having rolled up your sleeves or having worked alongside) DevOps, distributed system testing, CI/CD systems, release management, and site reliability engineering

Responsibilities

Lead the teams that build & maintain ground systems across the globe

Benefits

• Up to 100% paid medical coverage, robust vision and dental plans, comprehensive flexible spending accounts, supplemental health 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
• Furry friends? We’ve got you covered with dog-friendly work environment & them with pet insurance options