DevOps Engineer

Swarmaero; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare

401k

PTO

Wellness stipend

Office lunches

Parental leave

Job summary

Swarm Aero is building the world’s first swarming UAV platform and a secure control system. This role owns the infrastructure behind Legion, enabling engineers to deploy and operate at speed with robust observability and security from day one.

You will work closely with the DevSecOps lead to ensure scalable, compliant deployments across cloud and on‑prem environments, with travel to customer/test sites as needed.

Qualifications

• 4–8 years in DevOps, platform, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, containers, and IaC (Terraform or similar).
• Experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines in production.
• Solid Linux and networking fundamentals.
• Scripting in Python, Go, or Bash.
• Active Secret clearance or higher; able to obtain US clearance.
• Willingness to travel to customer and test sites.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines from commit to production across environments.
• Manage infrastructure as code for cloud and on-prem deployments.
• Run and scale containerized services on Kubernetes.
• Build out observability: monitoring, logging, alerting, and on-call tooling.
• Package and deploy Legion to customer environments, including travel to sites.
• Partner with DevSecOps lead to bake security and compliance into the platform.
• Help engineers ship faster by improving developer tooling and environments.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Linux fundamentals

Networking fundamentals

Scripting (Python/Go/Bash)

Tools

Kubernetes

Containers

Terraform

Job description

Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and the most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming, as well as the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results.

The team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars, and designed and built 30+ novel aircraft, with aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic.

About Swarm AeroSwarm Aero builds Group 5 autonomous aircraft and Legion, our command and control platform for coordinating UAV swarms. We're backed by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and Coatue, and our software is already running on real programs and real hardware. Legion is the layer operators actually touch, and it needs to ship fast, run reliably, and deploy anywhere our customers need it.

The role

You'll be a core member of the team that builds and runs the infrastructure behind Legion. Working alongside our DevSecOps lead, you'll own day-to-day pipelines, environments, and deployments so our engineers can move quickly without breaking the things operators depend on. This is a hands-on role for someone who likes building systems more than writing tickets about them.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that take Legion from commit to production across multiple environments

• Manage infrastructure as code for cloud and on-prem deployments

• Run and scale containerized services on Kubernetes

• Build out observability: monitoring, logging, alerting, and on-call tooling

• Package and deploy Legion to customer environments, including travel to customer and test sites when deployments require it

• Partner with our DevSecOps lead to bake security and compliance requirements into the platform from the start

• Help engineers across Legion ship faster by improving developer tooling and environments

What we’re looking for

• 4 to 8 years in DevOps, platform, SRE, or infrastructure engineering

• Strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, containers, and infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar)

• Experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines in a production environment

• Solid Linux and networking fundamentals

• Scripting in Python, Go, or Bash

• Active Secret clearance or higher strongly preferred; must be able to obtain and maintain a US security clearance

• Willingness to travel to customer and test sites

Nice to have

• Experience deploying to air‑gapped, disconnected, or edge environments

• Background in defense tech, government programs, or regulated environments

• Experience supporting real‑time or mission‑critical systems

ITAR requirement

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Swarm Aero is an equal opportunity employer. We value diverse backgrounds and experiences and make employment decisions without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, or disability.

What We Offer

• Meaningful equity in a high‑growth defense technology company

• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience

• Medical, dental, vision, and 401k

• PTO and paid sick leave

• Monthly wellness stipend

• Daily catered lunch (office)

• Paid parental leave

• Direct impact on a critical national security mission

• A world‑class team of engineers and operators solving genuinely hard problems

Compensation: $140K – $185K Offers Equity

• $140K – $185K Offers Equity