RTX

Principal Platform Engineer – Connected Aviation

RTX

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: ArizonaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $107,500 - $204,500 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • 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

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!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
AWSPythonKubernetesTerraformCI/CDKafkaRedpandaDagsterobservabilitydistributed systems
Soft Skills
collaborationreliabilityperformance improvementproblem-solvingcommunication