Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

Pyka is looking for a Software Engineer to join our dedicated and experienced team working on the cloud infrastructure and tooling used by our fleet of aviation robots.  You will have the opportunity to work as both a developer and devops engineer, designing, maintaining, and evolving our cloud infrastructure.  We are looking for a candidate with demonstrated skills working on building and maintaining cloud based systems and applications and a great track record of delivering results.  

Some of the current and future projects you will likely contribute to include:

• Building data pipelines to extract data from our logs and trigger automated alerts
• Maintaining and evolving our infrastructure as code (IaC) configuration and deployment
• Designing and deploying data dashboards and visualizations for internal and customer facing use cases
• Developing various development, staging, and production environments
• Designing and delivering systems that are secure by design and embody the Pyka principles of simplicity and pragmatism

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 C02 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. 

Responsibilities

• Manage and evolve cloud based development tools (CI/CD, artifact registries, etc)
• Develop and maintain our infrastructure as code (IaC) deployment tools (primarily in Pulumi with python)
• Properly configure our cloud infrastructure in a variety of environments and with a strong sense of simplicity and security (primarily in Google Cloud)
• Build new tools and applications for use by internal development and operations teams
• Build dashboards and visualizations of our data for both internal and external use
• Manage and configure databases and datalake type access to our log data (primarily in Google Bigquery)
• Maintain excellent documentation and operational documents like playbooks and usage guides
• Work with the operations and product teams to define and understand requirements for new features
• Plan and maintain forward looking roadmaps for future features
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to members of the team

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ professional experience with Python
• Some professional experience with C++ (ideally C++11 or newer)
• Demonstrated experience in one or more areas of: DevOps, SRE, Google Cloud, IaC tools (especially Pulumi), database or datalake administration, full stack development
• Passion for aviation

Company Perks

• $139,000 - $171,000 per year base salary + equity. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Salary ranges are subject to change.
• Employer-sponsored health, dental and vision insurance, FSA with employer matching, and 401(k)
• Paid holidays and generous PTO
• Free catered lunch and plenty of snacks
• Opportunity to work on large autonomous aircraft and see them fly

Export Control Requirements

This position requires access to technology, software and other information that is subject to governmental access control restrictions, due to export controls.  Employment in this position is conditioned on the continued availability of government authorization to authorize release of such items, to the extent required, including without limitation an export license, or other documentation required to establish authorization to receive access to such items. 

Company may delay commencement of employment, rescind an offer of employment, terminate employment, and/or may modify job responsibilities, compensation, benefits, and/or access to Company facilities and information systems, as Company deems appropriate, in order to ensure compliance with applicable government access control restrictions.

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We do not work with external recruiters; if you are an external recruiter, please do not reach out.