Design, build, and operate mission-optimized satellite constellations with Muon Space. Backed by Air Street.
About the role
Muon Space is building and operating a growing portfolio of infrared (IR) space missions that generate mission-critical Earth observation data for a diverse and expanding set of customers. These missions include the FireSat constellation, which delivers calibrated IR imagery and derived wildfire products to wildfire operators, the scientific community, the US Government, and commercial partners; and the Space Based Environmental Monitoring (SBEM) mission, which provides data for weather and cloud characterization,... Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years or MS with 8+ years or PhD with 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Demonstrated success as a technical leader on production data platforms at scale — with the designs and rollouts to show for it
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating production data pipelines on AWS with a modern workflow orchestrator (e.g., Flyte, Airflow, Prefect, Argo, or equivalent)
- Track record of leading multi-quarter architectural initiatives that spanned multiple services or teams
- Experience with latency optimization: measurement discipline, benchmarking, per-stage instrumentation, right-sizing, fan-out, caching, async I/O, and knowing when the answer is structural rather than algorithmic
- Strong operational mindset: observability, SLOs, on-call, safe deploys, hotfix protocols, immutability, and reproducibility
More about this role
Muon Space is building and operating a growing portfolio of infrared (IR) space missions that generate mission-critical Earth observation data for a diverse and expanding set of customers. These missions include the FireSat constellation, which delivers calibrated IR imagery and derived wildfire products to wildfire operators, the scientific community, the US Government, and commercial partners; and the Space Based Environmental Monitoring (SBEM) mission, which provides data for weather and cloud characterization, situational awareness, and a broad range of additional use cases. Muon's IR Data Products team owns the multi-mission, multi-customer software systems that process, store, and disseminate the data from these missions — turning raw downlink into calibrated imagery and derived products, and delivering those products reliably and at low latency to customers at scale.
This role is an architecture and technical-leadership seat for the Software focus area of the IR Data Products team. The engineer will own architecture and cross-team execution across defined IR data-system domains, translating longer-term technical direction into multi-quarter designs and delivered production...
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