Senior Manager, Digital Engineering

Required qualifications

• 5+ years directly managing software engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
• 8+ years of total experience in software engineering or a related technical field, with substantial and recent time as a hands-on individual contributor — you have built production systems, not just managed people who do.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance. (US Citizenship is required to qualify for a security clearance)
• Current coding proficiency in at least one modern language (e.g., Go, Python) — able to contribute production-quality code, prototype hard problems, and lead code review credibly, especially while the team is small.
• Track record shipping software products or platforms to production on a predictable cadence.
• Demonstrated experience building or maturing one or more of: software platforms, in-house enterprise applications or systems of record, system-integration programs, or workflow automation.
• Strong understanding of cloud and enterprise technologies, API and integration patterns, data modeling, and keeping data consistent across systems of record.
• Proven ability to translate business priorities into technical strategy and communicate it across all levels of an organization.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
• U.S. Citizen or lawful permanent resident (U.S. Person) as required under ITAR.

Additional requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
• Work Location: this role is hybrid/onsite at our facilities in Denver, CO or Long Beach, CA. #LI-Onsite
• Work environment is a standard office setting, working at a desk or on a production factory floor.
• Physical demands may include frequent standing, sitting, walking, bending, and lifting or carrying items up to 20 lbs.
• This position will be open until it is successfully filled.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

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• Experience managing teams in a startup, Series C through E, or similarly high-growth environment.
• Experience standing up a new team or function from the ground up.
• Experience leading a migration from an off-the-shelf enterprise system to in-house software.
• Familiarity with PLM, MBSE, requirements/ALM, ERP, and/or manufacturing execution (MES) systems and how product data flows across engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing.
• Background in aerospace, defense, hardware, or another regulated, product-data-intensive environment.
• Experience with digital engineering / digital thread initiatives.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.

• Hire, coach, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers, from early-career to staff level.
• Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and support career development and growth planning for direct reports.
• Foster a collaborative, high-ownership culture that thrives under fast-paced, high-stakes conditions.
• Manage on-call and support rotations so the team can keep its software reliable in production.

• Build early: personally write production code for the platform's core services, integrations, and first applications while the team is small, establishing the architecture and patterns others will extend.
• Stay hands-on as the team grows — through design and code review, prototyping hard problems, and pairing — enough to make sound technical calls and keep the trust of senior engineers.
• Deliberately hand off and multiply: shift work to the team as you hire, avoiding becoming the bottleneck or single point of failure on any critical path.
• Set and uphold the engineering bar for code quality, testing, and technical documentation by example.

• Define and drive the digital thread roadmap across the platform, integrations, in-house applications, and workflow automation — including build-vs-buy decisions for core engineering and business systems, made together with the teams that own them today.
• Balance new platform capability against operational support load, enforcing the discipline to protect roadmap work.
• Run the team's delivery – planning, prioritization, and a predictable release cadence.
• Proactively identify gaps across the program and prioritize resourcing to close them.

• Partner with engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, the owners of today's engineering and business systems, IT, Platform Engineering, and Cybersecurity to embed the digital thread into how products are designed, sourced, and built.
• Define clear responsibility boundaries with system owners and shared governance for integration changes, upgrades that affect integrations, access and separation-of-duties, and high-risk production change management.
• Serve as an escalation point for cross-functional questions about product-data flow and integrations.
• Communicate roadmap, delivery status, and risk to technical and executive audiences.

• Provide technical guidance and review for major initiatives such as cross-system data architecture, integration patterns, traceability, and platform operations.
• Ensure observability, auditability, sync health, and data quality are built into the platform.
• Support compliance efforts (e.g., CUI/ITAR, auditability) by ensuring the team produces necessary evidence and documentation.

• This role operates in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment supporting national security space operations, where adaptability and rapid decision-making are essential.
• On-call and support rotation oversight, including occasional after-hours participation, may be required.
• High degree of autonomy and ownership over the Digital Engineering function.
• Direct access to leadership and significant opportunity to influence technical strategy.
• Travel to other company sites as needed.

Benefits & perks*

• Best-in-class healthcare: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, with HSA/HRA options
• Generous time off: Flexible Time Off (FTO) for exempt employees, accrued PTO of up to 25 days for non-exempt employees, plus 12 paid holidays; Parental Leave; Sick Leave
• Fuel for your day: Daily catered lunch and unlimited snacks for in-office employees
• And more: 401(k) retirement plan, fitness reimbursement, and Dog Fridays
• Equity participation: Equity is included as part of our total compensation package, giving you an opportunity to share in the company’s success.

*Do not apply to fixed term and temporary roles

Compensation

• Denver, Colorado Base Salary: $175,000 – $255,000
• Long Beach, California Base Salary: $185,000 – $270,000
• Equity + Benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO and paid holidays, 401K, Parental Leave

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, location, and experience.

Space is a warfighting domain. True Anomaly seeks those with the talent and ambition to build the technology that secures it.

Our mission

True Anomaly delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority. We build autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors — enabling the U.S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from the ultimate high ground.

Our values

• Be the offset. We create asymmetric advantages with creativity and ingenuity.
• What would it take? We challenge assumptions to deliver ambitious results.
• It’s the people. Our team is our competitive advantage and we are better together.