Technical Lead Cloud Platform Engineer (Civil Aviation)

About Air Space Intelligence

ASI's mission-critical technology powers decision-making across aviation defense energy and other critical infrastructure domains. Backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz Spark Capital and Renegade Partners ASI delivers operational decision superiority—compressing days of analysis into seconds of action. ASI is leading the way and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

About the Civil Aviation Team

We are modernizing America’s air traffic control system on an accelerated timeline tackling one of the world’s most complex real-time optimization challenges: safely coordinating tens of thousands of daily flights in a dynamic safety-critical environment. Our team is building 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 demands exceptional precision resilience and reliability to support the safety and efficiency of the national airspace.

What You Will Do:

As a Lead Cloud Platform Engineer for the Civil Aviation team you will own the architecture reliability and evolution of a cloud platform supporting mission-critical aviation systems. You’ll lead a small team while remaining deeply hands-on building and operating infrastructure that must scale globally maintain ~99.99% availability and support safe continuous delivery in a 24/7 environment.

You will define and drive platform architecture establishing best practices for infrastructure-as-code Kubernetes-based systems deployment pipelines and production operations. You’ll own reliability end-to-end designing for failure implementing observability (metrics logging tracing) and leading incident response postmortems and continuous improvement efforts.

In addition to technical leadership you will manage and develop a small team of engineers—setting clear direction establishing high standards and creating the 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 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.

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.

What We Do

ASI is a dual-use software company that deploys predictive AI to the world's most complex operating environments. Backed by leading investors–including Andreessen Horowitz Renegade Partners and Spark Capital–we actively manage over 40% of all US air traffic across both public and private sector air operations. Partnering with major airlines like United and Alaska we optimize thousands of flights daily delivering millions in fuel savings and reducing flight times for customers. Today we're expanding our industry-proven capabilities into new domains including global logistics maritime and energy. Come join our founding engineering team in Boston as we build the future of complex operations.

Why Work With Us

You will do everything from ideate and develop new products from the ground up (0 to 1) to refine and optimize existing solutions (1 to n). In a small-team fast-paced environment you'll set standards for excellence while collaborating across the business. Your work will drive real impact.

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