Senior AWS Infra Engineer — Scale & Reliability (Aviation)

Flynavi; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Flight training

Job summary

Navi is hiring a hands-on infrastructure lead to own and scale the AWS platform behind our flight intelligence product. You’ll manage data ingest, AI pipelines, and customer dashboards for 100,000+ users and 100 requests per second, delivering reliability pilots expect.

You’ll design failover, observability, cost controls, and maintain runbooks, helping the team ship infrastructure across the backend. Early equity aligns you with Navi’s mission to reach cockpits worldwide.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on AWS experience with production infrastructure.
• Proven ability to scale systems to 100,000+ users and 100 req/sec.
• Experience building observability and incident response from scratch.
• Demonstrated capability to reduce cloud spend at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own and scale the AWS infrastructure behind Navi’s platform, from data ingest to AI pipelines to customer-facing dashboards
• Architect for real scale: user data and processing for 100,000+ users at 100 requests per second
• Build monitoring and alerting so we know a system is degrading before a customer does
• Design automatic fallback and failover mechanisms so a failure never becomes an outage
• Manage infrastructure costs and keep the cost curve flatter than the growth curve
• Own our infrastructure documentation and runbooks, and keep them current and usable
• Contribute across the backend: pipelines, APIs, and services beyond pure infrastructure

Skills

AWS

Observability

Reliability engineering

Cost optimization

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Navi is hiring a hands-on infrastructure lead to own and scale the AWS platform behind our flight intelligence product. You’ll manage data ingest, AI pipelines, and customer dashboards for 100,000+ users and 100 requests per second, delivering reliability pilots expect.

You’ll design failover, observability, cost controls, and maintain runbooks, helping the team ship infrastructure across the backend. Early equity aligns you with Navi’s mission to reach cockpits worldwide.