Kestrel Intelligence

AI-native platform for autonomous ISR tasking

Software Engineer

Cloud EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeRemote in USANo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

Apply prior AWS GovCloud and Department of Defense Impact Level experience to ensure compliance-ready infrastructure and architecture that supports future government deployments.
Strong software engineering background, particularly API development and distributed or service-oriented systems, is a plus.
Prior experience designing or operating multi-cloud environments is a plus.
Must be a U.S. citizen.
An active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance with a counterintelligence-scope or full-scope polygraph is listed as a bonus.

Responsibilities

Lead development of CI/CD artifacts, data structures, data processing pipelines, components of an agentic artificial intelligence architecture, and user interface components.
Design and deploy infrastructure using Terraform.
Lead deployment of Python-based APIs to cloud environments.
Establish infrastructure best practices, including environment separation for 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.
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, even if those environments are not immediately live.
Identify and mitigate infrastructure and compliance risks early.

Desired Qualifications

Being based near Colorado Springs, Colorado, or Washington, DC, including access to customer sites in Crystal City, Virginia, and Herndon, Virginia.

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 near 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

About the Company

Kestrel Intelligence

AI-native platform for autonomous ISR tasking

Kestrel Intelligence builds a software platform for managing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) in defense and commercial markets. It uses an AI-native orchestration system to dynamically allocate and prioritize sensor assets from multiple vendors, creating a marketplace for sensors and data. The product relies on agentic AI that can autonomously coordinate fleets of drones and ground robots based on human intent, enabling mission planning and acting at machine speed with tight multi-sensor integration. This approach differentiates Kestrel by combining proactive planning, cross-vendor orchestration, and a software-defined defense model to reduce operator workload and improve data quality. The company aims to ensure that intelligence is collected and synchronized effectively across global operations, delivering high-veracity, actionable insights to decision-makers.

Company size: 11-50
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Boise, ID
Founded: 2025

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