Principal Software Engineer - Streaming Insights (Remote)
About The Position
As a Software Engineer on the Aviation Intelligence team, you'll design, build and code critical projects — real-time data streaming and inference, high-throughput data availability, AI/ML, and turning raw data into real insight — while helping plan and communicate the work along the way. We're a small team inside a large org, and this role is meant to grow into someone who brings ideas to the table, not just executes on them. Here's why you might like it: the datasets are genuinely very large, so you get to leverage niche technologies for large datasets and get to flex your math/stats skills from time to time. Performance and efficiency aren't nice-to-haves here, they're fun problems. Much of what we work on is open-ended — and "can this even be solved," is a question that one must enjoy trying to answer. Improvements in our products directly improve the status quo for aviation around the world: airlines and airports run on our predictions, so real people catch flights they'd otherwise miss and skip delays they'd otherwise sit through — without ever knowing your work is why. You don't get many shots at impacting an entire mode of transportation. This is one of them.
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
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future. RTX will not offer sponsorship for this position.
- Intermediate or better knowledge of Rust.
- Python experience.
- Experience with Unix-style systems (ability to do basic administration, and manage work upon)
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience operating production workloads.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, GitHub Actions, or similar).
- Ability to work within an agile development style.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with AWS (EKS, IAM, VPCs, networking).
- Experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code.
- Experience with Kafka.
- Experience with Nix
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, etc.).
- Familiarity with Dagster, Airflow or other modern ETL orchestration tools.
- Background in ML/AI systems in production (MLOps).
- Experience optimizing infrastructure for performance and cost.
- Familiarity with Iceberg, Spark, Elasticsearch and other large-scale data processing systems.
- Experience working in hybrid infrastructure environments (cloud + on-prem Kubernetes).
Responsibilities
- Design, build and code critical projects — real-time data streaming and inference, high-throughput data availability, AI/ML, and turning raw data into real insight
- Help plan and communicate the work
- Bring ideas to the table, not just execute on them
- Leverage niche technologies for large datasets
- Flex math/stats skills
- Solve performance and efficiency problems
- Address open-ended problems and determine if they can be solved
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
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
High school or GED
