Posted 6 months ago
Software Engineer (Colorado)
Colorado SpringsOn-siteFull-time
AI Summary
Kestrel Software Engineer leads CI/CD, data pipelines, and API components for geospatial intelligence systems, with a focus on Terraform-driven infrastructure, cloud deployments, and secure government-facing architectures.
About this role
The Mission
At Kestrel, we are building the future of scalable autonomy across domains. Our systems enable commercial and national security customers to sense and act in support of complex missions without significant autonomous system expertise. This technology bridges domains (e.g., space, air, land, sea) and fields (e.g., AI, orbital dynamics, geospatial), requiring a team that has both breadth and depth in these related topics.
The Role
As a Kestrel Software Engineer, you will lead the development of CI/CD artifacts, data structures, data processing pipelines, components of an agentic AI architecture, and user interface components. You will work at the bleeding edge of geospatial science. This role requires adaptability, engineering rigor, and a deep respect for the mission.
Core Responsibilities:
- Design and deploy our infrastructure using Terraform
- Lead the deployment of Python-based APIs to cloud environments
- Experience with large-scale infrastructure architecture
- Establish infrastructure best practices from the ground up, including: Environment separation (dev / staging / prod); Secure networking, IAM, and secrets management; Logging, monitoring, and alerting
Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Apply prior AWS GovCloud and DoD IL experience to ensure: Compliance-ready infrastructure; Architecture choices that will not block future government deployments
- Design infrastructure and deployment patterns that support multi-cloud environments, including: Cloud-agnostic Terraform module design where practical; Minimizing provider lock-in for core services; Supporting future deployments across commercial cloud and GovCloud environments
- Plan and advise on future AWS GovCloud and DoD IL deployments, even if those environments are not immediately live
- Identify and mitigate infrastructure and compliance risks early
Bonus:
- Strong software engineering background is a plus, particularly: API development; Distributed or service-oriented systems; Prior experience designing or operating multi-cloud environments is a plus
- Based in the Colorado Springs, CO or Washington, DC (working in customer sites in Crystal City, VA and Herndon, VA) areas
- Active Top Secret // Specially Compartmented Information (TS//SCI) clearance with counterintelligence-scope polygraph (CSP) or full-scope polygraph (FSP)
Must be a US Citizen
Skills
AlertingAPIsAWS GovCloudCI/CDCloud ArchitectureCloud DeploymentsContainerizationData Processing PipelinesDev/stage/prodDoD ComplianceDoD ILEnvironment IsolationGeospatialGitHub ActionsGovernment DeploymentsIAMInfrastructure As CodeLoggingMonitoringMulti-cloudPythonSecrets ManagementSecurityTerraformTerraform Design PatternsTerraform Modules
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