FlightAware - Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)
Hybrid
TX, United States(flexible)
TX, United States(flexible)
Full Time Posted 12 days ago
Job Type
Full Time
Job Details
Date Posted:2024-03-26 Country:United States of America Location:HTX99: Field Office - TX Remote Location, Remote City, TX, 73301 USA Position Role Type:Remote Are you interested in building and maintaining the infrastructure to power the world’s largest flight tracking platform? FlightAware has built the world's leading aviation software platform, processing over 180+ million incoming messages an hour from over 34,000 individual data feeds—5 terabytes a day and growing! We provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight-tracking service and are proud to have built a wide variety of successful products on this foundation that have become central to the aviation industry at large. FlightAware is searching for an enthusiastic and process-driven, Site Reliability Engineeer (SRE) to "automate themselves out of a job.” The FlightAware Site Reliability Engineering team embraces infrastructure automation, release engineering, and continuous delivery. As part of the Operations team, our SREs work alongside highly effective and talented counterparts, interacting closely with all facets of the Engineering org. This role requires a fusion of skills in development, analytics and hardware to solve problems in an exciting and demanding environment. Regardless of role, we expect excellent interpersonal and communication skills across all hires at FlightAware. We look for candidates who will thrive here, meaning they demonstrate clear communication, embrace open feedback, trust their colleagues, and are driven to execute, deliver, and complete projects independently and efficiently. Learn more about the history of our reliability team and the FlightAware engineering interview process. What YOU will do:
- YOU will spend your days working to automate and improve reliability and continue to push FlightAware's infrastructure forward, ensuring it is resilient and reproducible.
- YOU will be responsible for service availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning.
- YOU will create, improve, and manage environments to ensure decisions on resource allocation, problem identification, and capacity planning are based on accurate data-driven insights.
- YOU will maintain a physical infrastructure using Kubernetes, Linux, & Ceph, and a cloud infrastructure in AWS as part of the Site Reliability Engineering team.
- YOU will have the opportunity to impact technology decision and direction to grow and support the FlightAware platform.
- YOU will collaborate closely with fellow SREs on your team, and extend your collaboration across other FlightAware teams and disciplines to design dependable and scalable solutions and services.
- YOU will gain a deep understanding of the systems and infrastructure that support FlightAware’s applications and services; this includes networking, operating systems, cloud platform, databases, and other relevant technologies.
- YOU will learn the intricacies of handling and processing real-time flight data, including ensuring the reliability of systems dealing with dynamic and time-sensitive information.
- YOU will gain expertise in designing and maintaining high-availability architectures for critical systems, ensuring continuous availability and performance for FlightAware's global user base.
- YOU will further develop skills in automation and scripting to streamline operational tasks and improve efficiency.
- Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) unless prohibited by local laws/regulations and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant 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.
- Experience as a SRE, Platform Engineer, or related position within a Linux or UNIX environment working on large, complex infrastructures and/or projects using Docker and Kubernetes solutions.
- Experience automating configuration and infrastructure with tools such as Saltstack, Ansible, Terraform or other declarative languages.
- Experience with hardware; including: servers, network switches, cabling.
- Will participate in shared on-call rotation with SRE team.
- Experience managing Kubernetes clusters using GitOps with continuous delivery (CD) pipelines such as Flux or Argo.
- Experience deploying and maintaining large distributed storage solutions, such as Ceph.
- Established proficiency in at least one (ideally more) of the following: Python, Go, Rust, or Shell (bash, awk, sed).
- Experience with PostgreSQL, or equivalent RDBMS and SQL in general.
- Experience working with Nix or NixOS.
- Familiarity with Cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS.
- Understanding of SRE principles including building observability solutions and exposing metrics to inform SLO's and KPI's.
- Understanding of how IT infrastructure services work, including: DNS, DHCP, PXE, LDAP, NFS.
- Understanding of network segmentation, routing and VPNs.
- Be on a career break of one or more year at time of application
- Have prior experience in functional area of interest
- Have interest in returning in either a full-time or part-time position
- Remote: Employees who are working in Remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home). An employee may be expected to travel to the site location as needed.
- 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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