# Staff Software Engineer, IR Data Products at Muonspace

- Company: Muonspace
- What the company does: Design, build, and operate mission-optimized satellite constellations with Muon Space. Backed by Air Street.
- Company website: https://muonspace.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Denver, CO
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $216K to $239K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-02
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/muonspace/jobs/5256159007?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/muonspace-staff-software-engineer-ir-data-products/

## 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

Tags: Engineering - Software

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