Senior Principal Platform Engineer – Connected Aviation

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☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $132.4k - $251.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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RTX

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2020

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Manufacturing • Consulting • Logistics

RTX is a globally recognized aerospace and defense company dedicated to transformative technologies and era-defining innovation. It operates through various businesses, including Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon, with a focus on sustainable, connected flight and smarter defense systems. RTX is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion across the company and aims to solve the world’s most complex problems with cutting-edge technology and talent. Additionally, RTX is involved in significant projects like upgrading the F135 Engine Core and developing missile-defense systems. The company emphasizes corporate responsibility and sustainable practices.

📋 Description

• Lead critical projects and coordination for the Aviation Intelligence department • Support Ascentia and FlightAware teams focused on AI/ML projects, data science, and data management • Own and evolve AWS infrastructure supporting data platform, ML training, and analytics workloads • Design, deploy, and maintain EKS-based services and Kubernetes workloads • Build and manage Terraform infrastructure across development, staging, and production environments • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployment • 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-premises systems • Support cyber hardening efforts with the RTX cyber team • Identify and incrementally improve existing infrastructure and deployment patterns

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience • Proficiency with Python • Strong experience with AWS, including EKS, IAM, VPCs, and 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 using 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 such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Thanos • Experience with Kafka Connect preferred • Experience with Rust or willingness to learn it preferred • Familiarity with Dagster, Airflow, or other modern ETL orchestration tools preferred • Background supporting ML/AI systems in production (MLOps) preferred • Experience optimizing infrastructure for performance and cost preferred • Familiarity with Iceberg, Spark, Elasticsearch, and other large-scale data processing systems preferred • Experience working in hybrid infrastructure environments preferred • Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without company immigration sponsorship now or in the future • No security clearance required

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees • Generous 401(k) plan with employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution • 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 • 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 • Flexible work schedules • Employee Scholar Program • Paid time off and holidays • Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be available