Panasonic Avionics Corporation
Website:
panasonic.aero
Job details:
Overview
Who We Are:
Ever wonder who brings the entertainment to your flights? Panasonic Avionics Corporation is #1 in the industry for delivering inflight products such as movies, games, WiFi, and now Bluetooth headphone connectivity!
How exciting would it be to be a part of the innovation that goes into creating technology that delights millions of people in an industry that’s here to stay! With our company’s history spanning over 40 years, you will have stability, career growth opportunities, and will work with the brightest minds in the industry. And we are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture that will help our organization thrive! We seek diversity in many areas such as background, culture, gender, ways of thinking, skills and more.
If you want to learn more about us visit us at www.panasonic.aero. And for a full listing of open job opportunities go to www.panasonic.aero/join-us/.
Title: MTS IV, Software
We are looking for a
highly experienced Cloud Engineer (MTS4 – Lead) to drive the continued evolution and optimization of our Airline Gateway (AGW) platform. This role requires a
strong technical leader and hands-on programmer with deep expertise in
Python backend development,
distributed systems, and
cloud-native architectures on AWS.
You will play a key role in enhancing
scalability, reliability, and observability of the platform, while guiding the team on
engineering best practices and
future-ready architecture, including the
gradual adoption of Go where applicable.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and development of cloud-native, distributed systems on AWS, driving migration from SOAP-based APIs to RESTful and microservices architectures.
- Act as a hands-on technical leader, contributing to critical backend development using Python and guiding the team on best practices.
- Architect and implement scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems with strong emphasis on performance and reliability.
- Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerization, and automation.
- Design and develop robust APIs and backend services, ensuring clean architecture, modularity, and maintainability.
- Mentor and guide engineers, conduct code reviews, and enforce high-quality engineering standards.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to align on architecture, integrations, and delivery milestones.
- Define and implement observability (monitoring, logging, tracing) to ensure system transparency and operational excellence.
- Ensure security, compliance, and governance standards are embedded into system design and implementation.
- Contribute to technical roadmap, system evolution, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Evaluate and gradually adopt Go for services where applicable, guiding the team through the transition.
Qualifications
Skills & Qualifications:
- Expert-level experience in Python backend development, including building scalable web services and APIs.
- Strong experience in designing and building distributed systems and microservices architectures.
- Deep expertise in AWS cloud services and architecture (EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.).
- Strong understanding of RESTful API design, system scalability, and performance optimization.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience with high-scale systems, concurrency, asynchronous processing, and fault tolerance.
- Strong knowledge of observability tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, tracing systems).
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases in cloud environments.
- Solid understanding of cloud security, IAM, and compliance best practices.
- Basic knowledge of Go programming, with willingness and ability to scale up as needed.
- Strong problem-solving skills with ability to lead complex technical discussions and decisions.
Preferred
- Experience in airline or travel domain systems.
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Developer).
- Experience with serverless and event-driven architectures.
- Exposure to platform evolution and optimization initiatives.
- Basic understanding of C++ for legacy integrations is a plus.
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