Technical Lead, Cloud Platform Engineer (Civil Aviation)

About the role

Air Space Intelligence (ASI) is dedicated to powering decision-making across aviation, defense, energy, and other critical infrastructure sectors. Supported by leading investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, and Renegade Partners, ASI focuses on delivering operational decision superiority, transforming days of analysis into seconds of action. We are pioneering advancements and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in our field.

About the Civil Aviation Team

We are modernizing America’s air traffic control system on an accelerated timeline, addressing one of the world’s most complex real-time optimization challenges. Our team is developing next-generation trajectory prediction and decision-support systems while preparing the airspace for emerging technologies like commercial space operations and advanced air mobility. This mission-critical work requires exceptional precision, resilience, and reliability to ensure the safety and efficiency of the national airspace.

What You Will Do

• Own the architecture, reliability, and evolution of a cloud platform supporting mission-critical aviation systems.
• Lead a small team while remaining deeply hands-on, building and operating infrastructure that scales globally, maintains ~99.99% availability, and supports safe, continuous delivery in a 24/7 environment.
• Define and drive platform architecture, establish best practices for infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes-based systems, deployment pipelines, and production operations.
• Own reliability end-to-end, design for failure, implement observability (metrics, logging, tracing), and lead incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Manage and develop a small team of engineers—set clear direction, establish high standards, and create systems (metrics, processes, feedback loops) that enable teams to operate autonomously while maintaining a strong culture of reliability and ownership.

What We Value

• 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).
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines that support safe, frequent production releases.
• Hands-on experience with progressive delivery techniques (e.g., canary deployments, safe rollback strategies).
• Strong understanding of observability and monitoring systems (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus).
• Experience leading small teams (1-2+ years) while remaining hands-on.
• Ability to own platform architecture end-to-end, from design through production operations.
• Proven track record of driving reliability culture and production excellence across teams.
• Experience operating and supporting 24/7 production systems.
• Strong ability to lead design reviews and make architectural decisions in distributed environments.
• Experience with FedRAMP High environments or other regulated cloud systems is a plus.
• Exposure to high-availability systems (e.g., “four nines” reliability) is a strong plus.
• Proficient in leveraging modern LLM tools to accelerate development workflows and enhance code quality.

How We Hire

We view the interview process as an opportunity to simulate what it would be like working together. We build the interview process around you. ASI works with export-controlled technology and restricted U.S. Government data, including on contracts mandating U.S. immigration status and location restrictions for performing personnel. Employment offers are contingent on ability to timely obtain all required authorizations for contemplated job duties.