Software Engineering Manager - Control Plane

Blackshark; Graz; Remote; EUR 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Learning opportunities

Mental well-being programs

Healthcare

Job summary

HUNTR is hiring for a leadership role in Austria (Graz) to guide the Control Plane team, owning backend, frontend and security initiatives. You will lead a distributed, async-friendly team delivering scalable API access and sovereign control across diverse deployments.

The role requires shipping production backend services, on-premise delivery experience, and strong architectural judgment. Remote-friendly with flexible arrangements and healthcare benefits.

Qualifications

• Must have led software engineers directly with performance ownership for 2+ years.
• Strong ability to review designs and find risk and failure modes.
• Experience shipping and operating backend services in production.
• Experience delivering software to environments controlled by customers (on-premise / air-gapped).
• Remote-first, async-friendly communicator with document-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team spanning backend, frontend and security work; manage 1:1s and performance reviews.
• Own the end-to-end roadmap; teams own services, SLAs, costs, on-call, and impact.
• Deliver the public API developer experience for defense and enterprise integrators.
• Build licensing instrumentation and per-tenant behavior visibility.
• Ship access control features: SSO, RBAC, and admin tooling for sovereign environments.
• Represent the team in architecture reviews; own the stack you commit to.
• Maintain the operational bar for availability, latency, and incident quality.

Skills

Team leadership

Technical credibility

Production backend ops

On-premise deployments

Async/remote collaboration

Tools

Python

FastAPI

Vue.js

TypeScript

Keycloak

Postgres

PostGIS

Redis

Docker

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

AWS

Job description

Satellite and drone imagery access is on the rise, and traditional image processing methods are struggling to keep up. We've never had more data, turning those pixels into trusted, measurable understanding still takes months of AI work. HUNTR reduces this to hours.

We do not sell models. We provide the infrastructure that lets governments and enterprises build, validate, deploy and operate visual models they own. From pixel inputs to operational 2D and 3D outputs, under full sovereign control. Once deployed, every new sensor observation improves the customer's understanding of reality. Wherever the mission takes place, HUNTR runs there - from SaaS and private cloud to on-premise, classified networks and edge hardware in the field

We kicked off in 2020 and have secured $35 million in Series A funding from a lineup of top US and European investors, among which Microsoft M12, Point72 Ventures, Maxar, In-Q-Tel, SAFRAN, and ISAI/Capgemini.

The Control Plane team builds the backbone every other service team depends on. Authentication and authorization, subscription, license management, the public API, the frontend and the shared services that the whole platform depends on. You will lead the domain related team in all aspects, reporting to the Head of Engineering.

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.

The minimum salary is 75.000,--€ gross per year. The effective salary depends on qualification and experience and may be significantly higher!