Senior Principal Platform Engineer – Connected Aviation

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

📋 Description

• Lead essential projects and coordinate efforts within the Aviation Intelligence department.

• Manage and enhance AWS infrastructure that supports data platforms, machine learning training, and analytics workloads.

• Design, implement, and sustain EKS-based services and Kubernetes workloads.

• Develop and oversee Terraform infrastructure across development, staging, and production environments.

• Create and uphold CI/CD pipelines for both infrastructure and application deployment.

• Operate and enhance Kafka/Redpanda clusters.

• Increase the reliability, observability, and performance of prediction services.

• Assist with Dagster for orchestrating data workflows.

• Collaborate with Data Science, ML Engineering, and Data Engineering teams to productionize models and data pipelines.

• Strengthen AWS IAM, networking, and the connectivity between cloud and on-premises systems.

• Support cybersecurity hardening initiatives with the RTX cyber team.

• Identify and progressively enhance existing infrastructure and deployment patterns.

• Collaborate with Ascentia and FlightAware teams on AI/ML projects, data science, and data management.

⛳️ Requirements

• Generally requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) along with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field with a minimum of 7 years of experience.

• Proficiency in Python.

• Extensive experience with AWS, including EKS, IAM, VPCs, and networking.

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for operating production workloads.

• Experience managing Kafka or Redpanda in production settings.

• Proficient in Terraform for infrastructure as code.

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

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, reliability, and scaling.

• Familiarity with supporting production data pipelines or machine learning systems.

• Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Thanos.

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for company immigration sponsorship now or in the future.

• No security clearance is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees.

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

• Tuition reimbursement program.

• Student Loan Repayment Program.

• Life insurance and disability coverage.

• Optional pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, and ID theft protection.

• Birth, adoption, and parental leave benefits.

• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning services.

• 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.

• Flexible work schedules.

• Flexible spending accounts.

• Employee Scholar Program.

• Paid time off and holidays.

• Potential eligibility for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs (not guaranteed).

• Primarily remote work from home; travel to the site location as needed.