ForeFlight is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience migrating services and infrastructure from AWS Commercial to AWS GovCloud. This role will ensure that our government clients have access to our cutting-edge ForeFlight capabilities in a secure FedRAMP-compliant environment. Our ideal candidate is passionate about standing up, testing and operating AWS infrastructure in a smooth and automated fashion.
In this position, you will help lead the effort to bake quality and compliance into our automated delivery pipelines and to surface insights into how things are running. You will also work with software engineers from multiple server engineering teams to help write infrastructure as code to replicate existing ForeFlight services in AWS GovCloud.
This position can be based at one of our three offices (Austin, TX, Houston, TX, or Portland, ME) or fully remote from select states. Benefits include medical insurance, 401(k) with matching, and flight training reimbursement.
Required Skills:
- 3+ years of software development in Java, Python, or .NET
- Strong experience with DevOps tools and methodologies
- Strong experience with AWS ECS, Aurora, AWS networking, CloudFront, etc.
- Experience authoring CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, Jenkins, etc.)
- Experience authoring infrastructure as code (CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.)
- Able to grasp complex issues and identify potential solutions
- Experience working across various development and operation teams to achieve common goals
- Broad understanding of deployment and operations across app server and database technologies
- US Citizen or Permanent Resident
Nice to Have:
- Experience with FedRAMP certification
- AWS Certification
- Experience with Java Spring Boot, Docker, Datadog, Backstage
- Aviation Experience (e.g., pilot, dispatcher, flight ops)
Why You Should Join:
At ForeFlight, we know you want a rewarding career. To do that, you need challenging projects, a good work environment, and awesome coworkers. We believe in our employees, and we empower them to make a direct impact on our products and services messaging. We strive to provide ForeFlighters and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits package includes but not limited to the following:
- Medical, dental, vision insurance with Employer paid health premiums
- Open PTO Policy
- 401(k) with up to 10% company matching and immediate vesting
- 12 Weeks Paid Maternity Leave
- 4 Weeks Paid Paternity Leave
- Flight Training Rewards
- Tuition Stipend
What We Do
ForeFlight was founded in 2007 by aviation entrepreneurs who set out to build elegant, high-performing flight planning and flight bag apps for pilots. ForeFlight Mobile, the company’s flagship product, improves situational awareness, increases productivity, and simplifies decision making for pilots and flight crews all over the world. ForeFlight is used by all segments of aviation, including general, business, commercial, and military aviation. Learn more at www.foreflight.com.
Why Work With Us
ForeFlight is unique because it is the perfect fusion of a fast-paced, innovative software company and an incredible community of aviation enthusiasts.
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Employees work remotely.
We hire in 26 states across the country with three offices located in Austin, Houston, and Portland, ME. We encourage those employees that live near an office to go in a couple days a week.
