Software Engineering Manager - Control Plane

The role

You will lead a team of backend, frontend and security engineers that builds the Control Plane: authentication, authorization, subscriptions, licensing, the public API, the frontend and shared platform services. You will report to the Head of Engineering and own the team's roadmap, delivery, hiring and operational quality.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a team spanning backend, frontend and security work, including 1:1s, performance reviews and development plans.
• Own hiring and delivery for the team.
• Own the Control Plane roadmap end to end, including SLAs, cost, on-call and customer impact.
• Deliver the public API developer experience for defense, intelligence and enterprise integrators.
• Build usage and licensing instrumentation for adoption, activation and per-tenant behavior.
• Ship single sign-on, role-based access and administration tooling for sovereign customers.
• Represent the team in architecture and design review.
• Own availability, request success and incident quality, which are measured.

Required qualifications

• Managed at least three software engineers directly for at least two years, with performance and development ownership.
• Technically credible: able to find flaws in design documents, such as resource management, consistency assumptions and failure modes.
• Shipped and operated backend services in production, ideally Python on Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of identity, authorization and multi-tenancy.
• Delivered software into customer-controlled environments: on-premise, single-tenant or air-gapped delivery.
• Works in writing and makes decisions through documents and interfaces.
• Reasons from evidence and changes position when the data changes.

Benefits

• Seat in the engineering leadership group.
• Competitive compensation.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Personalized benefits including learning opportunities, mental well-being programs and healthcare.

About the company

blackshark provides infrastructure that lets governments and enterprises build, validate, deploy and operate visual models they own, under full sovereign control. Founded in 2020, it has raised $35 million in Series A funding from investors including Microsoft M12, Point72 Ventures, Maxar, In-Q-Tel, SAFRAN and ISAI/Capgemini.