Product Insights Engineering Lead

blacksky; United States; Remote; USD 165,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

AD&D insurance

401(k) match

Employee stock purchase program

Professional development

Flexible Spending Accounts

Mac or PC? Your choice

Company swag

PTO 15 days + holidays

Job summary

BlackSky is seeking an Engineering Manager for Product Insights to lead a team building hosted product pipelines and integrating partner analytics within the platform. You will collaborate across imagery, platform, and partner teams to accelerate delivery and ensure reliability.

The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering and cloud infrastructure experience, with a track record leading high-performing teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/engineering or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in software engineering including distributed systems.
• 2+ years leading engineering teams with formal leadership.
• 2+ years hiring, capacity planning and cross-functional collaboration.
• Design and build scalable production software solutions.
• Hands-on with AWS services (EKS, S3, EC2, Aurora/RDS, SQS, SNS, Batch).
• Excellent communication bridging technical and business units.
• Some programs may require U.S. citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Build and retain a high-performing team focused on product hosting.
• Set technical strategy and roadmap for Product Insights.
• Lead design of hosting architectures, pipelines, versioning, reliability.
• Collaborate with product, platform, AI/analytics and partner teams.
• Identify and remove cross-team roadblocks in ingestion and integration.
• Maintain technical involvement via code reviews and architecture.
• Foster continuous improvement, ownership, and reliability.
• Identify risks and accelerate delivery with new flows or integrations.
• Support sprint planning and roadmap development with product leadership.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Software engineering

Education

B.S. in CS/Engineering

M.S. in a related field

Tools

AWS

EKS

S3

EC2

Aurora/RDS

SQS

SNS

Batch

Kubernetes

Dask

Python

Golang

Job description

BlackSky is seeking an Engineering Manager for Product Insights to lead a team building hosted product pipelines and integrating partner analytics within the platform. You will collaborate across imagery, platform, and partner teams to accelerate delivery and ensure reliability.

The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering and cloud infrastructure experience, with a track record leading high-performing teams in a fast-paced environment.