# Product Insights, Software Engineering Manager at BlackSky

- Company: BlackSky
- What the company does: BlackSky is the driving force behind looking at our planet in real-time, providing an easy, affordable way to order and access high-quality satellite imaging to vastly improve understanding about our world. Backed by Space Capital.
- Company website: https://blacksky.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Seattle, WA; Herndon, VA; Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $165K to $205K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-14
- Apply: https://boards.greenhouse.io/blacksky/jobs/8694025002?gh_jid=8694025002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/blacksky-product-insights-software-engineering-manager/

## About the role

BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company. We own and operate the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform and provide customers satellite imagery, automated analytics and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets and events from around the globe. BlackSky is trusted by the most demanding allied military and intelligence organizations and commercial companies to deliver foresight into critical matters that affect national security and the economy.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- A minimum of eight (8) years of professional experience in software engineering, including experience building or operating complex distributed, autonomous, or mission‑critical systems
- At least two (2) years of experience leading engineering teams as a people manager or technical lead with formal leadership responsibilities
- Minimum of two years of experience managing or leading high-performing engineering teams, including hiring, capacity planning, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration
- Demonstrated experience designing and building scalable production software solutions and architectures
- Hands on experience with cloud services such as AWS EKS, S3, EC2, Aurora / RDS, SQS, SNS, Batch, etc

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