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Senior Backend Software Engineer

Spire Law - Boulder, Colorado, United States

Posted Jun 4, 2026

Benefits

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Salary
$130K-$171K Verified - from the job posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)
$116,543 U.S. median for this role
Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
+9.8% - Much faster than average

29% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

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Public-company Verified - from the job posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
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About this role

Senior Backend Software Engineer Boulder, Colorado, United States About the Role Spire is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help design, build, and improve the reliable and secure systems that support our satellite and ground infrastructure. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on backend systems, platform engineering, observability, and infrastructure-aware software development. You'll work closely with software, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams to implement scalable solutions that support operational reliability and secure engineering practices. We are not looking for a dedicated cybersecurity specialist. Instead, we're seeking an experienced software engineer who has worked alongside security teams and has experience implementing technical requirements related to security, reliability, and compliance within production systems. This role is best suited to engineers who enjoy solving technically challenging problems and have experience working on complex systems in industries such as aerospace, scientific computing, telecommunications, biotech, robotics, or other high-reliability environments. What You'll Do: Design, develop, and maintain backend services and platform tooling Collaborate with cybersecurity and infrastructure teams to implement secure engineering requirements Contribute to modernising services, container environments, and CI/CD workflows Improve telemetry, monitoring, logging, and observability across production systems Support cloud-based infrastructure and deployment workflows in AWS environments Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and engineering best practices Work across infrastructure, backend systems, and operational tooling in a collaborative engineering environment Who You Are: Required Qualifications: 5+ years of professional software engineering experience Strong Python development skills Experience with at least one compiled language such as Rust, C++, Go, Java, or C

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