Your Mission
- Lead and grow a team spanning backend, frontend and security work. Run 1:1s, performance reviews, development plans. While owning hiring and delivery.
- Own the roadmap end to end. Teams here own their services completely: SLAs, cost, on-call, customer impact. Engineers own problems, not tickets.
- Deliver the public API developer experience for defense, intelligence and enterprise integrators. Shorten the path from first credential to first successful integration.
- Build the usage and licensing instrumentation the rest of the organization decides on. Adoption, activation and per-tenant behavior are questions Control Plane answers for everyone.
- Ship the access control sovereign customers require. Single sign-on, role-based access, and administration tooling that holds up in environments we do not operate.
- Represent the team in architecture and design review. The strongest argument wins regardless of who holds it, and the proposing team owns the stack it commits to.
- Hold the operational bar. Availability, request success and incident quality are yours, and they are measured.
Your Profile
- You have managed software engineers directly, at least three of them, for at least two years, with real performance and development ownership.
- You are still technically credible. You read a design document and find the resource management flaw, the consistency assumption, or the failure mode nobody modeled.
- You have shipped and operated backend services in production, ideally Python on Kubernetes. You know what identity, authorization, and multi-tenancy cost when they are done badly.
- You have delivered software into environments the customer controls, not only infrastructure you run yourself. On-premise, single-tenant or air-gapped delivery is a requirement here.
- You work in writing. This is an async-first, remote-friendly organization with a distributed team. Decisions live in documents and interfaces, not in recurring meetings.
- You reason from evidence and change position when the data moves. You can name a decision you reversed and what caused it.
Tech Stack
- Python, FastAPI
- Vue.js, TypeScript
- Keycloak
- Postgres, PostGIS
- Redis
- Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD
- AWS
Why join us
- Own the highest-leverage surface in the company: every service team, every customer and every deployment runs through what your team builds.
- A seat in the engineering leadership group, and real influence over how the organization is built as it scales.
- Diverse deployment challenges: the same platform runs in the cloud, on classified networks, and on a laptop in the field.
- Customers who are demanding for good reasons, and who tell you exactly what sovereign control has to mean in practice.
- Competitive compensation with flexible working arrangements and personalized benefits including learning opportunities, mental well-being programs, and healthcare.