Software Engineering Manager - Data Plane

The role

You will lead a team that builds distributed data processing at terabyte scale. The team turns satellite, aircraft and drone imagery into ML-ready inputs and delivers detection results into customer systems.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a team building distributed data processing at terabyte scale.
• Run 1:1s, performance reviews and development plans.
• Own hiring and delivery for the team.
• Own the roadmap end to end, including SLAs, cost, on-call and customer impact.
• Improve ingestion reliability, processing latency and storage efficiency.
• Extend ingestion beyond raster imagery and build import and delivery integrations such as ArcGIS, STAC APIs, WMS and WMTS, and object storage on both major clouds.
• Represent the team in architecture and design review.
• Own availability, request success and incident quality, which are measured.

Required qualifications

• Have managed software engineers directly, at least three of them, for at least two years.
• Have led teams building data-intensive systems such as pipelines, distributed processing or large-scale storage.
• Have a geospatial background: coordinate reference systems, raster and vector data, GeoTIFF and cloud-optimized formats, PostGIS, tiling schemes.
• Have a strong technical foundation in Python and distributed systems.
• Have delivered software into environments the customer controls.
• Work well in writing in an async-first, remote-friendly organization.
• Reason from evidence and change position when the data changes.

Benefits

• Learning opportunities.
• Mental well-being programs.
• Healthcare.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Personalized benefits.
• Competitive compensation.

About the company

blackshark provides infrastructure that lets governments and enterprises build, validate, deploy and operate visual models they own. The company has raised $35 million in Series A funding and serves defense, government and enterprise customers on three continents.