Navi captures everything a pilot sees and hears and turns it into automated debrief intelligence. The platform is live at flight schools, business jet operators, and the U.S. Air Force — and demand is accelerating. You're the person who turns that demand into deployments.
🏢 About NAVI AI
Navi is live 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.
🎯 The Role
You'll own the AWS architecture, the reliability story, the cost curve, and the runbooks the whole team depends on.
✅ Key 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
📌 Required Qualifications
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
⭐ Desirable Experience
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
🎁 Benefits
Early-stage equity — real ownership in a category-defining company
Flight training — earn your pilot's license and sell with true domain expertise
Impact you can see — the deals you close put Navi in cockpits at airlines, flight schools, and the U.S. Air Force
A role that scales into commercial leadership as we grow
