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Senior Software Engineer - FlightAware Backend (Onsite)

AI summary of the role

Senior backend engineer for FlightAware, the world's leading aviation software platform processing 180M+ messages/hour.

What you’ll do

  • Build new features from scratch and bring them to production.
  • Scale backend infrastructure including streaming data feeds, databases, queueing systems, compute, and analysis engines.
  • Ensure seamless self-service account management with subscription, billing, and accounting integration.
  • Deliver cloud-native microservices powering website, mobile apps, and data reporting.

What you’ll bring

  • Degree in STEM and 5+ years experience (or advanced degree with 3+ years).
  • Experience with Go, Rust, C++, PostgreSQL, MySQL or similar.
  • Understanding of clear API contracts.
  • Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Technologies

Go · Rust · Python · Kubernetes · AWS · PostgreSQL · MySQL · Redis · Terraform · Grafana

About RTX

Builds aerospace systems, jet engines, and defense technologies through Collins, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon for commercial aviation, governments, militaries, and allies.

Public · 5000+ people

Source and classification

Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:

industry partners and consumers? 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's Backend crew builds state-of-the-art systems that power the FlightAware website and mobile apps used by millions of people. The Backend crew is at the heart of FlightAware’s SaaS integration. The Backend wing is responsible to maintain a single source of truth for each flight tracked by FlightAware. All of the communication about a flight that starts days before its departure through its ultimate arrival are
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