HawkEye 360 (HE360) is currently seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to provide expert-level contributions to the Platform Engineering team. The Platform Engineering team enables fellow team members to build secure, performant, efficient, and cost-effective systems and tools supporting the HawkEye mission.

The successful candidate will help shape the next generation platform by providing expert insights to improve the existing system and turn ideas into deployed production capabilities. The Principal Platform Engineer will report to the Director of Platform Engineering, and interface with directors and engineers throughout the Engineering organization.

As the Principal Platform Engineer, your main responsibilities will be:

• Develop, deploy, and maintain critical infrastructure in AWS for HawkEye 360's collection, processing, and analytics services
• Provide expert technical guidance and oversight across the entire HawkEye 360 platform architecture
• Collaborate across engineering teams to understand platform requirements, use cases, and functionality
• Design and improve platform architecture to meet the functional needs of the organization and ensure integrity and security of HE360 systems and data
• Troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis on unexpected issues/outages
• Guide and mentor teammates to automate and simplify daily development and deployment processes

Your skills and qualifications:
Essential education and experience:

• M.S. or B.S. in Computer Science or related engineering field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years professional experience
• Broad knowledge of Infrastructure setup, automation and troubleshooting, with specific knowledge of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology stack; particularly deploying and maintaining EKS, EC2, RDS, S3/EBS/EFS.
• A deep understanding of basic networking concepts relevant to Platform Engineering troubleshooting, including TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, firewalls, basic routing concepts, and load balancers, with hands-on AWS networking experience
• Knowledge of Linux operating systems and installing and configuring security patches, within containers and on servers/virtual machines
• Deep understanding of development and security best-practices, utilizing least-privilege concepts for access control
• Experience with Software/Systems Operations, to include managing and troubleshooting production systems
• Experience deploying and configuring applications to run on Kubernetes clusters using Helm
• Familiarity with writing and maintaining terraform modules to deploy infrastructure
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Desirable:​​​​​​

• Experience with Kubernetes advanced add-ons such as: ArgoCD, Kyverno, Cilium, and Crossplane
• Experience migrating terraform modules to Crossplane compositions
• Experience with Keycloak, Okta or other OIDC/SAML-based SSO & Auth services
• Experience building and updating secure Docker images to deploy custom applications
• Familiarity Metrics & Monitoring tooling (Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, or similar)
• Experience with Tableau and Snowflake

Base Salary Range: $170,000 - $200,000 annually

HawkEye 360 offers a compensation package that includes a competitive base salary plus annual performance bonus and benefits. We consider many factors when determining salary offers, such as candidate's work experience, education, training & skills, as well as market and business considerations. We are also open to considering candidates with experience and qualifications at a different level than required in a job posting, which may affect the compensation package offered.

Company Overview:
HawkEye 360 is delivering a revolutionary source of global knowledge based on radio frequency (RF) geospatial analytics to those working to make the world a safer place. The company operates a commercial satellite constellation that detects, geolocates, and identifies a broad range of signals & behaviors. We employ cutting edge AI techniques to equip our global customers with high-impact insights needed to make decisions with confidence. HawkEye 360 is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia.

HawkEye 360 is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

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