Principal Platform Engineer – Connected Aviation
Location
Arizona
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
$107.5K - $204.5K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Platform Engineer – Connected Aviation
RTX
• Own and evolve AWS infrastructure supporting data platform, ML training, and analytics workloads (Iceberg/Trino, ETL pipelines, Kubeflow/MLflow) • Design, deploy, and maintain EKS-based services and Kubernetes workloads • Build and manage Terraform infrastructure across environments (dev/staging/prod) • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployment (GitLab/GitHub) • Operate and improve Kafka/Redpanda clusters • Improve reliability, observability, and performance of prediction services • Support Dagster for data workflow orchestration • Collaborate with Data Science, ML Engineering, and Data Engineering to productionize models and data pipelines • Strengthen AWS IAM, networking, and connectivity between cloud and on-prem systems • Support cyber hardening efforts with our RTX cyber team • Identify and incrementally improve existing infrastructure and deployment patterns
Job Requirements
- Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience
- Proficiency with Python.
- Strong experience with AWS (EKS, IAM, VPCs, networking)
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience operating production workloads
- Experience managing Kafka (or Redpanda) in production environments
- Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure as code
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, GitHub Actions, or similar)
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, reliability, and scaling
- Experience supporting production data pipelines or ML systems
- Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, etc.)
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
- Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Optional coverages you can buy: pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
- Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
- Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
- Adoption Assistance
- Autism Benefit
- Employee Assistance Plan, including 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
- And more!
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