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You’ll work closely with engineering, flight operations and customer success teams to set priorities and build infrastructure that scales with our company and fleet.\nSome of the current and future projects your team will contribute to include:\nBuilding and improving systems for collecting, storing, and accessing aircraft logs and operational data to support debugging, analysis, and fleet insights\nImproving our CI pipelines, build systems, and software release and distribution processes\nDeveloping infrastructure for machine learning pipelines, including data preparation and training\nImproving data management, access and analysis across the company\nAutomating infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment\nDeveloping internal tools and integrations that reduce manual work across engineering and operations\nDeveloping external tools for customers to access and visualize their flight, maintenance and inventory data\nImproving monitoring, recovery processes, security, and cost efficiency as our infrastructure grows\nResponsibilities\nLead a team of engineers to deliver infrastructure and tooling projects end-to-end, from requirements definition to deployment and ongoing maintenance\n\nOwn team and project roadmaps, balancing company priorities, operational needs, and long-term infrastructure improvements\n\nOwn project execution, defining milestones and priorities, tracking progress, and adjusting as requirements evolve\n\nOwn the infrastructure and practices for managing aircraft and engineering data\n\nGuide infrastructure decisions with attention to security, scalability, performance, and cost\n\nHire, onboard, mentor, and support engineers through regular feedback and coaching\n\nContribute technically when needed to guide architecture, review designs, debug complex issues, or unblock work\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n6+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or related roles\n\nPrior experience managing engineers, including coaching, setting priorities, and supporting individual development\n\nExperience designing, deploying, and operating production systems on Google Cloud, including Google Cloud Storage and BigQuery\n\nStrong technical foundation in Python, Linux systems, networking, databases, and modern software development workflows\n\nExperience with infrastructure as code (e.g. pulumi), CI/CD systems, containers, and deployment automation\n\nFamiliarity with infrastructure supporting data analysis and machine learning workflows\n\nExperience improving system reliability through monitoring, incident response, and operational practices\n\nExperience with cloud security, access management, and cost management\n\nStrong technical judgment and the ability to make practical tradeoffs between immediate needs and long-term maintainability\n\nExperience working across teams to turn ambiguous engineering and operational needs into concrete plans\n\nComfortable working in fast-moving and highly collaborative environments with evolving priorities\n\nExperience supporting robotics, autonomous systems, or other hardware-focused engineering teams is a plus\n\nCompensation & Benefits\n $180,000-$250,000 salary per year + equity. 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