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$165,000 – $205,000
Listed on BlackSky’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Lead a newly formed engineering team building scalable product pipelines that deliver satellite imagery insights and analytics directly through BlackSky's platform. This role suits experienced engineering managers with cloud infrastructure expertise who want to bridge geospatial technology, platform engineering, and partner integrations in a mission-critical environment.
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What they ask for
Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including distributed, autonomous, or mission-critical systems
- 2+ years leading engineering teams as a people manager or technical lead
- Experience designing and building scalable production software and architectures
- Hands-on experience with AWS services (EKS, S3, EC2, Aurora/RDS, SQS, SNS, Batch)
- Excellent communication skills, bridging technical and non-technical teams
- U.S. citizen or eligible for required U.S. Department of State authorizations
Nice to have
- Master's degree in a relevant technical field
- 10+ years of engineering experience with high-availability or mission-critical software leadership
- 2+ years in the geospatial industry
- MLOps and DataOps experience
- Kubernetes and Dask distributed compute experience
- Strong Python or Golang proficiency with production data ETL, microservices, geospatial, or analytics experience
- Knowledge of system safety, fault tolerance, redundancy, and recovery strategies in autonomous or sensitive environments
- Track record aligning engineering with Product, Sales, and Executive leadership
- Experience balancing commercial production SLAs with program-specific requirements