Engineering Manager - Data and Infrastructure

1 month ago
Full-time
Senior
DevOps and Infrastructure
Istari

Istari

Istari Digital is at the forefront of revolutionizing industries with digital twins, simplifying and securing models and simulations for enhanced products and systems. Their innovative approach empowers various sectors from aerospace to agriculture, pa...

Aerospace & Defense
11-50
Founded 2022
$13M raised

Description

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team focused on data systems, DevOps, and infrastructure reliability, providing people management and technical leadership.
  • Drive technical strategy, set roadmap priorities in collaboration with product and security leadership, and ensure consistent, high-quality execution across initiatives.
  • Oversee all engineering work related to the company’s open-source graph database (Dgraph), including core modifications, CI/CD pipelines, documentation, and incident response.
  • Assist in managing and engaging the open-source community around Dgraph and develop a roadmap for the database’s evolution.
  • Mentor and guide engineers improving Istari’s Kubernetes-based platform, including Argo CD, Helm charts, and deployment automation.
  • Manage development and improvements of customer installation tooling, monitoring, observability, and operational runbooks for self-hosted/on‑prem deployments.
  • Plan and execute deployments into ITAR-controlled and other restricted environments, ensuring compliance with applicable controls and requirements.
  • Partner with security teams to conduct architecture reviews, implement risk mitigation, and promote secure-by-default practices.
  • Own operational readiness for stateful systems and support incident response and post-incident remediation for data and infrastructure components.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2+ years leading technical teams.
  • Experience leading teams that manage infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes, Argo CD, Postgres, and other databases.
  • Background managing distributed systems, databases, and data infrastructure; experience with stateful systems strongly preferred.
  • Experience delivering and supporting self-hosted or on-premise enterprise software and customer installation tooling.
  • Solid AWS experience, with preference for EKS, VPC networking, IAM, and related services.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen living within the United States.
  • Preferred: experience developing database technologies, particularly graph databases.
  • Preferred: knowledge of cybersecurity and compliance frameworks such as NIST, CMMC, or FedRAMP, and experience supporting ITAR or other restricted federal environments.
  • Preferred: familiarity with IaC tools (e.g., Terraform), service meshes, and observability stacks.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation ($170,000 - $230,000/year) with company stock options.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage with employee premiums 100% company paid.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Unlimited paid time off (PTO) plus federal government holidays and flexible work hours.
  • Company-paid life insurance.
  • Home office setup budget.
  • Reimbursement for approved trainings and subscriptions and support for conferences (travel, lodging, and fees).
  • Note: some benefits may not be available to interns or contractors.

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