Experience with large-scale infrastructure architecture.
Prior experience with AWS GovCloud and Department of Defense Impact Level environments.
U.S. citizenship is required.
An active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance with counterintelligence-scope or full-scope polygraph is listed as a bonus.
Being based in the Colorado Springs, Colorado or Washington, DC areas is listed as a bonus.
Responsibilities
Design and deploy infrastructure using Terraform.
Lead deployment of Python-based APIs to cloud environments.
Establish infrastructure best practices, including environment separation across development, staging, and production; secure networking, identity and access management, and secrets management; and logging, monitoring, and alerting.
Design and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines using GitHub Actions.
Apply AWS GovCloud and Department of Defense Impact Level experience to ensure compliance-ready infrastructure and architecture choices that support future government deployments.
Design infrastructure and deployment patterns for multi-cloud environments, including cloud-agnostic Terraform modules where practical, minimizing provider lock-in for core services, and supporting future deployments across commercial cloud and GovCloud environments.
Plan and advise on future AWS GovCloud and Department of Defense Impact Level deployments.
Identify and mitigate infrastructure and compliance risks early.
Desired Qualifications
A strong software engineering background, particularly in application programming interface development and distributed or service-oriented systems.
Prior experience designing or operating multi-cloud environments.
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)