Technical Lead, Cloud Platform Engineer (Civil Aviation)
Air Space IntelligenceAerospace AI company
Boston, United StatesLead
Andreessen Horowitz
Spark Capital
Bloomberg Beta
IVP
Renegade Partners
Helium-3 Ventures
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead cloud platform architecture for mission-critical aviation systems.
- •As a Lead Cloud Platform Engineer for the Civil Aviation team, you will own the architecture, reliability, and evolution of a cloud platform supporting mission-critical aviation systems.
- •Key Responsibilities Define and drive platform architecture, establishing best practices for infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes-based systems, deployment pipelines, and production operations.
- •Own reliability end-to-end, designing for failure, implementing observability (metrics, logging, tracing), and leading incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement efforts.
- •Manage and develop a small team of engineers—setting clear direction, establishing high standards, and creating the systems (metrics, processes, feedback loops) that enable teams to operate autonomously while maintaining a strong culture of reliability and ownership.
- •Requirements Strong experience building and operating highly reliable cloud platforms (e.g., ~99.99% uptime).
- •Deep expertise in AWS, with a strong understanding of multi-region and highly available architectures.
- •Proficiency with Kubernetes and containerized environments, along with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Helm).
Required skills
AWSKubernetesTerraformCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaDocker
Nice-to-have skills
Engineering Management
Domain expertise
aerospace
Tech stack
AWSKubernetesTerraformCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaDocker
