What You Will Do:As a Senior Engineering Manager for the Civil Aviation team, you will lead the execution of large-scale, mission-critical systems that power aviation operations. You will oversee multiple engineering teams across a complex, multi-year roadmap, ensuring systems meet strict reliability, performance, and compliance requirements. You will drive execution across parallel workstreams, aligning teams around clear technical direction and delivery against a highly complex set of system requirements, while operating deeply at the system design level-guiding architecture, enforcing engineering standards, and ensuring consistency across distributed systems.
You will also lead and develop teams through a high-autonomy management approach: setting clear expectations and direction, supporting individual growth, and establishing the right metrics and feedback loops to ensure teams are operating effectively-ultimately creating clarity and systems that allow teams to execute independently without heavy day-to-day oversight.
You'll partner closely with product, program management, and domain experts to coordinate delivery across teams, building systems that integrate complex datasets, support simulations, and enable real-time decision-making.
What We Value:- Strong experience leading large-scale engineering efforts across multiple teams (e.g., 5-7+ teams)
- Proven ability to manage complex, multi-year roadmaps with many interdependent systems and requirements
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and system design, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance
- Experience driving high-availability systems (e.g., 99.99% uptime) and enforcing reliability standards across teams
- At least 2-3+ years of engineering management experience, with prior experience as a software engineer
- Ability to set structure, align teams, and drive execution across large programs
- Experience coordinating work across multiple parallel workstreams with clear ownership and accountability
- Strong judgment in prioritization, tradeoffs, and delivery under constraints
- High bar for engineering quality, operational excellence, and accountability
- Ability to build trust and lead effectively in a mission-critical environment
- Exposure to geospatial, mapping, navigation, or aviation-related systems is a plus
- Experience working in cloud environments and regulated systems (e.g., FedRAMP or similar) is a plus
How We Hire:We look at the interview process not as a screening or test, but rather as an opportunity to simulate what it would look like working together. We build the interview process around you.
