<h2><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>Muon seeks a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead our Software Platform team. This team builds and operates the paved roads (CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, Bazel, AWS, IAM, data infrastructure, and more) that underpin both our internal tooling and the production systems behind customer-facing products such as Muon Mission Command.</p> <p>The Software Platform team is critical to the overall growth and success of Muon's software engineering organization: as the number of product teams, services, and customers expands, the leverage this team creates, through reduced cognitive load, eliminated toil, and self-service Golden Paths, directly determines how fast the rest of engineering can move. This manager will inherit a team of six engineers, and will be responsible for both scaling that team to meet current demand and evolving it into a product-minded platform organization whose customers are Muon's own developers.</p> <p>This position is hybrid and requires working on-site in our San Jose, CA office three days per week. </p> <h2><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Lead, mentor, and grow the Software Platform team. Own hiring, performance management, coaching, and team composition for a growing platform organization. Actively recruit engineers to meet the demands of a rapidly scaling software department.</li> <li>Define team goals, and technical roadmaps that align with companies priorities.</li> <li>Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of mission-critical services operating in production.</li> <li>Work with cross-functional stakeholders to translate mission needs into clear requirements and technical specifications.</li> <li>Drive engineering best practices including design reviews, code quality, testing, and observability.</li> <li>Manage team capacity, staffing, and growth, including hiring, coaching, and performance development.</li> <li>Promote a culture of technical ownership, continuous improvement, and pragmatic delivery.</li> <li>Build feedback loops with developer-customers, prioritize based on real friction, and hold clear ownership boundaries so product teams retain accountability for their applications.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Qualifications</strong></h2> <ul> <li>BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent industry experience.</li> <li>5+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years managing software engineering teams building and operating production systems.</li> <li>Direct experience managing a platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE team, including responsibility for hiring, performance management, coaching senior engineers, and shaping team composition.</li> <li>Strong technical background in distributed systems, backend services, or platform development, with hands-on depth in Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS.</li> <li>Demonstrated experience supporting production systems with real uptime, reliability, and performance requirements (SLOs, on-call, incident response, postmortems).</li> <li>Track record of establishing paved roads / Golden Paths and treating internal platforms as products, with developers as customers.</li> <li>Experience running a DevOps or SRE function embedded within a platform team (rather than as a separate silo), consistent with our team model.</li> <li>Experience defining technical direction and driving execution through a team, including prioritization, roadmap ownership, and stakeholder alignment.</li> <li>Strong communication skills and comfort partnering with cross-functional stakeholders across engineering, security, and IT/information systems.</li> <li>Ability to hold clear ownership boundaries, comfortable saying "no" to work that belongs to product teams while still being a great partner to them.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Nice-to-have Skills</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Hands-on experience with Bazel or another large-scale monorepo build system.</li> <li>Experience leading data engineering or data platform work as part of a broader platform team.</li> <li>Familiarity with Cloudflare, Artifactory, IAM/Okta, InfluxDB, or Grafana-based observability stacks.</li> <li>Experience scaling a platform team through a period of rapid organizational growth.</li> <li>Experience partnering closely with information security teams on platform-level controls (IAM, secrets management, supply chain).</li> <li>Familiarity with aerospace, satellite operations, or other high-reliability / mission-critical domains.</li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Salary</span></h2> <p>The salary range for this role is $240,000 - $265,000, plus a competitive equity grant and comprehensive benefits package. Final compensation will be determined based on skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location as assessed during the interview process. </p><div class="content-conclusion"><h2><strong>About Muon Space</strong></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Founded in 2021, Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission-critical data. Our revolutionary, integrated technology stack enables customers to optimize every dimension of their missions for faster time-to-orbit and superior constellation remote sensing performance. Our state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Silicon Valley is optimized for manufacturing spacecraft and rapid, flexible payl