Who we are
Welcome to one of Europe’s most exciting New Space companies, creating the world's first fully connected mesh network in the sky. We are an international team of experts and engineers who have spent their careers expanding the boundaries and potential of space, now united in pursuit of a single vision. We value trust, open communication and collaboration to achieve the best results together.
Your mission
As a platform engineering lead, you will guide and mentor a talented team while staying deeply involved in the technical architecture and implementation of cloud platform services. Your role requires maintaining balance between providing strategic technical leadership and hands-on development, ensuring the team delivers secure and scalable platform services to support our mission. Your expertise will be crucial in making architectural decisions, reviewing code, participating in systems design, and fostering a culture of technical excellence while simultaneously managing team dynamics, professional growth, and program deliverables.
This includes:
- Team and Technical Leadership: Lead and mentor the Platform Engineering team while driving planning and execution. You'll manage team capacity, support professional development, and foster a collaborative environment. As a technical leader, you'll architect cloud platform solutions, review designs, and ensure high standards for code and infrastructure quality while driving engineering best practices adoption
- Platform Development & Automation: Take charge of developing cloud platform features and services with a strong focus on infrastructure automation. Guide API implementations and deployment strategies while ensuring platform security and compliance. You'll help establish and maintain the technical foundation and building blocks that enable our teams to work efficiently and securely to help to deliver our mission.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with multiple teams including SRE for reliability, security for cloud platform controls, and various software development teams to ensure smooth operations. You'll support FinOps practices and manage stakeholder relationships across segment teams, ensuring alignment and effective communication throughout the business
Why you should join us
We are an international team of space enthusiasts, following one great vision. We value equality in our work environment where different opinions, backgrounds and experiences are not only welcomed but also necessary to achieve the best result collaboratively.
This permanent position was created recently and thus offers a lot of creative freedom. Our approach is to create a modern work environment with hybrid working model. We offer an attractive salary depending on your experience.
Rivada Space Networks is an equal opportunity employer with the approach to create a diverse and inclusive working environment. We therefore welcome applications from all qualified candidates irrespective of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, disability, or other individual characteristics.