Principal Software Engineer – Streaming Insights

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Arizona.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and implement essential aviation intelligence initiatives that involve real-time data streaming and inference, high-throughput data accessibility, AI/ML, and transforming raw data into actionable insights.

• Assist in planning and communicating project tasks.

• Create solutions for extensive, open-ended datasets and intricate performance and efficiency challenges.

• Construct and sustain production data and infrastructure systems.

• Enhance products that aid airlines and airports in minimizing missed flights and delays through predictive analytics.

• Collaborate within a small Aviation Intelligence team in a larger organizational setting.

• Share ideas and expand beyond responsibilities focused solely on execution.

⛳️ Requirements

• Generally requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) along with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related discipline with at least 5 years of experience.

• Must possess authorization to work in the U.S. without the need for company immigration sponsorship, both now and in the future.

• Intermediate or advanced proficiency in Rust.

• Experience with Python.

• Familiarity with Unix-style systems, including basic administration and task management.

• Practical experience with Kubernetes for operating production workloads.

• Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, GitHub Actions, or equivalent tools.

• Capability to work within an agile development framework.

• Preferred: familiarity with AWS, encompassing EKS, IAM, VPCs, and networking.

• Preferred: experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code.

• Preferred: knowledge of Kafka.

• Preferred: experience with Nix.

• Preferred: strong understanding of distributed systems, reliability, and scalability.

• Preferred: experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Thanos.

• Preferred: familiarity with Dagster, Airflow, or other modern ETL orchestration tools.

• Preferred: background in production ML/AI systems and MLOps.

• Preferred: experience in optimizing infrastructure for performance and cost efficiency.

• Preferred: knowledge of Iceberg, Spark, Elasticsearch, and other large-scale data processing platforms.

• Preferred: experience in hybrid infrastructure environments that include both cloud and on-premises Kubernetes.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees.

• Generous 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions and separate employer retirement contributions, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option.

• Tuition reimbursement program.

• Student Loan Repayment Program.

• Life insurance and disability coverage.

• Optional pet insurance.

• Optional home and auto insurance.

• Optional additional life and accident insurance.

• Optional critical illness insurance.

• Optional group legal coverage.

• Optional ID theft protection.

• Birth, adoption, and parental leave benefits.

• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning support.

• Adoption Assistance.

• Autism Benefit.

• Employee Assistance Plan, which includes up to 10 free counseling sessions.

• Healthy You Incentives wellness rewards program.

• Doctor on Demand virtual doctor visits.

• Bright Horizons child and elder care services.

• Teladoc Medical Experts second opinion program.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.

• Potential eligibility for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs.