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Software Engineering Manager (Mission Operations)

Sift

Join our team as a Software Engineering Manager for Mission Operations. In this hands-on role, you will lead our Mission Ops squad, responsible for building systems and tools that monitor the health and operations of machines and fleets. You will own the technical scope for user interfaces, APIs, and backend systems, ensuring best-in-class performance, scalability, and reliability. You will also manage and build a team of high-performing engineers, collaborate with product and go-to-market teams, and actively engage in architecture and codebase contributions. This is an exciting opportunity to work on the cutting edge of science and technology.

Lead and manage a team of high-performing engineers, providing mentorship and guidance to accelerate their growth.

About Sift

Leadership: Proven ability to guide teams through ambiguity and a track record of being a "force multiplier" for engineering talent

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Product and Go-To-Market teams to define a technical roadmap shaped by customer needs.
  • Ensure the team delivers best-in-class results at high velocity while meeting the reliability bar that launch and live operations demand.

Requirements

  • Software Development: Strong experience with distributed systems and web applications using Go, Rust, or Python, and with modern frontends built in React and TypeScript
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, STEM, or a related field
  • Experience: 7+ years in software engineering with 2+ years in a people management role
  • Operations Expertise: Experience building real-time monitoring, alerting, or incident management systems. Familiarity with time-series data and event-driven architectures. Expertise in observability tools such as Grafana or Prometheus
  • Experience in leading AI-first teams and AI initiatives

Preferred

  • Experience in Aerospace, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Defense or Energy
  • Experience building mission control, ground systems, or fleet operations software
  • Experience designing alerting, anomaly detection, or root-cause analysis workflows for operators

Pay

USD 200,000 - 265,000