Manager, Software Engineering - Cloud infrastructure

About Pyka

Pyka’s goal is to provide society with a new form of safe, clean, and cost-effective transportation enabled by autonomous electric aviation.

To get there, we’re taking a different approach than most. We're applying our technologies to every industry where autonomous electric aircraft can be useful, starting with the highest value and most dangerous jobs. In doing so, we're building game-changing products manufactured at scale, while perfecting the safety, reliability, and capabilities of our autonomy engine and electric propulsion systems. 

We design, develop and manufacture an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary flight control software, avionics, high power density motors, motor controllers, batteries, and custom carbon-fiber composite airframes.

Today, we supply autonomous electric aircraft for cargo transport and crop protection to real-world customers across four separate continents and have secured industry-first regulatory approvals from the FAA. Our cargo aircraft enables remote connectivity, enhances express delivery networks, and ensures fast and reliable shipping of critical supplies to areas in need. Our crop protection aircraft offers agricultural services providers and farmers an autonomous tool to make aerial application safer, more precise, and less harmful to surrounding environments. Both vehicles are highly economical to operate, easy to deploy, and significantly reduce CO2 emissions in their respective industries. 

What you work on at Pyka makes people’s lives better now and brings the future of electric aviation one step closer each day. 

Role Overview

Pyka is looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Manager to lead the team building and operating the cloud systems, data infrastructure, and developer tools that support our autonomous aircraft programs. Your team will build the infrastructure behind aircraft logs and operational data, software distribution, CI pipelines and machine learning pipelines, helping engineers develop and ship software efficiently and making data accessible and useful across the company.
In this role, you’ll be responsible for both team execution and team health, making sure your team delivers high-quality work while growing as engineers. You’ll work closely with engineering, flight operations and customer success teams to set priorities and build infrastructure that scales with our company and fleet.

Some of the current and future projects your team will contribute to include:

Responsibilities

Preferred Qualifications

6+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or related roles

Prior experience managing engineers, including coaching, setting priorities, and supporting individual development

Experience designing, deploying, and operating production systems on Google Cloud, including Google Cloud Storage and BigQuery

Strong technical foundation in Python, Linux systems, networking, databases, and modern software development workflows

Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g. pulumi), CI/CD systems, containers, and deployment automation

Familiarity with infrastructure supporting data analysis and machine learning workflows

Experience improving system reliability through monitoring, incident response, and operational practices

Experience with cloud security, access management, and cost management

Strong technical judgment and the ability to make practical tradeoffs between immediate needs and long-term maintainability

Experience working across teams to turn ambiguous engineering and operational needs into concrete plans

Comfortable working in fast-moving and highly collaborative environments with evolving priorities

Experience supporting robotics, autonomous systems, or other hardware-focused engineering teams is a plus

Compensation & Benefits