Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

Navi is deployed at Embry-Riddle, Purdue, UND, Sling Pilot Academy, and the United States Air Force, and usage is compounding. The next chapter is not a product problem. It is an engineering problem: serving 100,000+ users and 100 requests per second with the reliability pilots expect from everything else in their cockpit.

What you'll do

• 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

About you

• 5+ years of professional experience building and operating production infrastructure
• You've dealt with user data and processing at genuine scale. Not 1,000 users. 100,000 users and 100 requests per second
• Deep, hands-on AWS experience: you know the services, the failure modes, and the bill
• You've built observability from scratch: monitoring, alerting, on-call, incident response
• You've shipped automatic failover and fallback mechanisms and lived with them in production
• You treat cost as an engineering metric and have materially reduced cloud spend at scale
• Ideally you've carried infrastructure from the seed stage of a company through Series C. If you come from big tech, you've also worked early stage
• Strong general backend skills; you're an engineer first, infrastructure specialist second
• You write things down: documentation and runbooks that let others operate what you built

Nice to have

• An existing network across airlines, charter and fractional operators, or collegiate and military flight training programs
• Experience selling technical or hardware-plus-software products into regulated industries
• Background as a pilot, or deep familiarity with flight operations and training workflows
• Early-stage or founding go-to-market experience