Software Development Engineer - IV (QC08966)

• Own technical direction and architecture for key areas of Aereo Cloud platform
• Lead system design for scalable, reliable services handling petabyte-scale geospatial data
• Make pragmatic engineering decisions balancing scalability, performance, reliability, security and cost
• Review technical designs, RFCs and critical code changes to raise engineering quality
• Debug complex production issues and drive architectural improvements
• Identify and address technical debt limiting platform scalability
• Establish engineering standards, development practices and technical guidelines
• Own delivery of business-critical engineering initiatives end-to-end

Software Development Engineer – IV Technical Leadership | People Leadership | Aereo Cloud About Aereo Aereo (earlier known as Aarav Unmanned Systems) is a deep-tech company building the future of how the physical world is mapped, understood and managed. We build end-to-end drone and geospatial intelligence solutions for enterprises and governments across mining & metals, infrastructure, energy, utilities, urban planning and other large-scale industries. Our technology brings together aerial robotics, computer vision, GIS, AI and cloud software to solve complex, real-world problems at scale. We are backed by leading Indian VCs and have built a self-sustaining, rapidly growing business with a strong presence in the commercial drone ecosystem. At Aereo, we believe in solving meaningful problems, moving with urgency, and building technology that creates measurable impact. About Aereo Cloud Aereo Cloud is the technology backbone of our geospatial intelligence ecosystem and our enterprise SaaS platform. The platform enables organizations to securely store, manage, visualize and analyze massive volumes of drone and geospatial data, turning complex spatial data into actionable insights and enterprise workflows. With workloads operating at PB-scale, Aereo Cloud brings together large-scale data processing, geospatial visualization, analytics and enterprise workflows. As our customer base and use cases grow, we're solving increasingly complex problems around scale, performance, reliability and engineering velocity. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer – IV to help lead this next phase of engineering at Aereo Cloud. The Role This is a senior engineering leadership role combining strong technical ownership with people leadership . You will lead a team of engineers across one or more key areas of Aereo Cloud while remaining deeply connected to the technical problems the team is solving. We are looking for someone who has grown from a strong software engineering background into technical and people leadership, someone who can design systems, challenge technical decisions, solve complex engineering problems and still get hands-on when required , while simultaneously building, mentoring and developing a high-performing engineering team. You won't be expected to spend your days writing code. But you also won't be expected to step away from engineering. You should be comfortable getting into the details - reviewing designs and code, debugging difficult production issues, prototyping solutions, driving architectural decisions and contributing to critical implementations when needed. At the same time, you will be responsible for building a team where engineers take ownership, grow in their careers, develop strong technical judgment and consistently raise the engineering bar. We are not looking for someone who has moved away from engineering into management. We are looking for an engineer who has grown into leadership. What You'll Do 1. Technical Leadership

• Own the technical direction of your engineering area, aligned with Aereo Cloud's product and business priorities.

• Lead architecture and system design for scalable, reliable and maintainable services and platforms.

• Make pragmatic engineering decisions across scalability, performance, reliability, security, cost and engineering velocity.

• Break down ambiguous and complex problems into clear technical approaches and executable plans.

• Review technical designs, RFCs and critical code changes, raising the quality of engineering decisions across the team.

• Stay close enough to the codebase to understand how systems actually work and where they can fail.

• Dive into complex technical and production problems when the team needs deeper technical expertise.

• Prototype or contribute to implementation for critical, technically challenging or high-leverage problems.

• Identify architectural gaps and technical debt that could limit Aereo Cloud's ability to scale, and drive initiatives to address them.

• Establish and continuously improve engineering standards, development practices and technical guidelines.

• Raise the bar on testing, CI/CD, observability, performance optimisation and production reliability.

2. Engineering Execution

• Own delivery of business-critical engineering initiatives from problem definition through production.

• Translate product requirements and customer problems into clear technical priorities and execution plans.

• Work closely with Product, Design and other engineering teams to make effective technical and product trade-offs.

• Build strong engineering execution rhythms without creating unnecessary process.

• Identify bottlenecks in development, architecture and delivery and continuously improve how the team works.

• Balance short-term product requirements with long-term platform scalability and technical health.

• Take ownership of production health for your area, including reliability, incidents, performance, bugs and root-cause analysis.

• Drive proactive capacity planning, observability and identification of production risks.

• Ensure learnings from incidents and failures translate into lasting engineering improvements.

3. People Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, mentor and develop a high-performing engineering team with a strong culture of ownership and technical excellence.

• Conduct regular 1:1s and provide clear, thoughtful and actionable feedback.

• Understand the strengths, development areas and aspirations of individual engineers and help them grow.

• Coach engineers towards greater technical ownership, independence and decision-making.

• Identify high-potential engineers and develop them into future technical leaders.

• Set clear expectations, goals and measurable outcomes for team members.

• Create an environment where engineers can challenge ideas, take ownership, experiment and learn from

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