Full Stack Data Engineer - Internal Flight Data Applications

Responsibilities

• Internal applications: Build and maintain the internal web applications engineers use to work with flight data — flight record browsers, query interfaces, and analysis tools over the warehouse. 

• Backend services: Develop Python services and HTTP APIs that query Athena and S3 and return results at interactive speed, including pagination and caching over large result sets. 

• Front end: Build interfaces that make large telemetry datasets explorable — sortable tables, filters, and time-series plots — for engineers who are never going to write SQL. 

• AI-assisted diagnosis: Build agent-based tooling over the data platform so engineers can ask questions in plain language and follow a symptom through to a root cause without hand-writing queries. Design these tools to return the underlying data and how it was derived, not just an answer, so an engineer can verify the result before acting on it. 

• Self-serve analysis: Turn recurring one-off analyses from the firmware, GNC, battery, and maintenance teams into supported, self-serve tools instead of scripts that only their author can run. 

• Data catalog: Generate the internal field guide and data catalog from the warehouse itself, so what engineers read cannot drift from what the tables actually contain — and keep that metadata machine-readable, so the tooling and agents built on top of it interpret results correctly. 

• Alert review: Build the review and triage surfaces for fleet health alerts — acknowledgment, history, and trend views — alongside the existing dashboards and Slack notifications. 

• Tooling distribution: Package and distribute analysis tooling so it runs on an engineer's laptop, Windows included, without someone walking them through an environment setup. 

• Ownership: Carry your work through deployment — tests, code review, CI/CD, and the monitoring that tells you when something breaks. 

• Collaboration: Sit with the engineering teams to scope what they actually need, and document what you ship so the next person can support it. 

Qualifications 

2+ years of professional experience building and shipping web applications, backend through front end
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
Proficient in Python, and comfortable writing SQL against a real database
Experience with a modern JavaScript or TypeScript front-end framework (React, Vue, or similar)
Has built and consumed HTTP APIs, including authentication, pagination, and error handling
Comfortable with Git-based workflows, code review, and CI/CD
Can sit with a non-software engineer, work out what they actually need, and ship it — most requirements here arrive as a conversation, not a spec 

Preferred Qualifications 

• AWS experience, particularly S3, Athena, Lambda, or API Gateway
• Worked with large or time-series datasets, and knows how to keep a UI responsive over millions of rows 
• Charting and data visualization libraries; Grafana dashboard development 
• Docker, and infrastructure as code with Terraform 
• Has built with LLM APIs or agent frameworks — tool use, retrieval over structured data, and evaluating whether the output can be trusted 
• Has built internal tools where the users are colleagues rather than customers 

Familiarity/experience with one or more of the following:

 
• Aerospace, automotive, or robotics telemetry, and flight or vehicle test data
• Packaging desktop or command-line tooling for non-developer users, including on Windows
• Authentication and access control for internal applications (SSO, IAM, scoped credentials)
• Regulated or safety-critical environments with traceability and data retention requirements
• Natural-language or conversational interfaces over structured, time-series, or diagnostic data
• Interest in RC planes, quadcopters, or aviation 

Attributes aligned with Core Values

Safety Above All: Demonstrates a proactive safety mindset by embedding safety into daily work, identifying and mitigating risks, encouraging open dialogue about safety concerns, and continuously improving practices and protocols.
Customer Focus: Puts customers at the center of every action by understanding their challenges, delivering meaningful value, and supporting their success.
Work Better Together: Seeks and values diverse perspectives, builds cross-functional relationships, and fosters trust through empathetic, fact-based communication and commitment to shared decisions.
Be the Pilot: Drives results with clarity and purpose by focusing on what matters most, adapting to change, taking initiative, and owning outcomes.
Embrace the Unknown: Navigates ambiguity with resilience and bold thinking, challenges the status quo, and combines innovative ideas with practical approaches to overcome obstacles and drive progress.
Respect for People: Fosters a high-performance culture grounded in respect, professionalism, and support by balancing high expectations with a healthy, collaborative environment and being a trusted, dependable teammate.