Senior Mission Data Platform EngineerActive$220K
The opportunity
We build robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense (AD) Team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters.
What you'll do
Lead the design, development, and maintenance of a scalable, self-service: data platform that serves as the foundation for analytics and data applications across the organization.
Architect and manage the underlying cloud infrastructure using: Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD best practices to support the data platform.
Partner with and empower platform users—including analytics engineers, data: scientists, and software engineers—by providing robust tooling, clear documentation, and a seamless developer experience.
Implement SRE principles to ensure the data platform is highly available,: performant, and observable, establishing SLOs, automating operational tasks, and leading incident response for the platform.
Evolve the platform's architecture by evaluating and integrating new: technologies from the modern data stack to meet the ever-changing needs of the business.
+ years of experience in a combination of data platform engineering, cloud: infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles.
What they're looking for
- Ability to comprehend and appropriately modify software written in a systems: or lower-level language such as C/C++, Rust, Zig, etc.
- Experience with setting up and managing infrastructure to support analytical: workloads on-premises or in resource-constrained environments.
- Experience working with specialized data formats (e.g., MCAP, HDF5) common in domains like robotics.
- Experience with the Nix (dependency management & system configuration) ecosystem.
- Strong Linux fundamentals and troubleshooting skills.
- Prior defense, aerospace, or intelligence domain experience.
- Deep intellectual interest in the intersection of infrastructure, analytics,: and the physical hardware world, motivated by our mission.
- Exposure to the technical, programmatic, and operational challenges of: developing and deploying advanced systems across various command echelons.
