Senior Cloud & CI/CD Engineer – Aerospace

Firefly Aerospace; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision plans

Parental leave

Educational reimbursement

Short term disability

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Firefly Aerospace is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own and evolve the cloud infrastructure and DevOps that power the Vision Navigation System and Guidance, Navigation & Control teams. You will build CI/CD systems, tooling, release management, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines that connect development, simulation, testing, and mission operations.

The ideal candidate has deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, build systems, and large data assets, with an appetite for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field; equivalent practical experience may be considered
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience in DevOps, build/release engineering, and/or cloud infrastructure roles
• Experience managing builds and deployment environments with high test coverage and build reproducibility
• Strong experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and release management for multi-team codebases
• Experience designing, deploying, and reviewing cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure), including infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform)
• Experience developing and debugging in Linux environments; strong scripting and automation skills in Python or similar languages
• Experience dealing with large versioned data assets and the pipelines that process them
• Strong understanding of software architecture, automated testing, and maintainable software design
• Demonstrated ability to resolve complex system-level issues and communicate effectively across software, algorithm, hardware, and systems engineering teams

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and operation of CI/CD, build tooling, simulation environments, and cloud infrastructure for the VNS and GNC software stacks
• Build unified packaging and release management for all of ASE, spanning firmware, spacecraft software, ground systems, and cloud services
• Build and maintain test and release workflows for multiple teams, ensuring high test coverage and build reproducibility across environments
• Own and improve build tooling; optimize CI and build times to improve engineer productivity across the organization
• Manage shared testing pipelines to improve PR merge speed and overall development velocity
• Support data processing pipelines and visualization tooling, both on the ground and in the cloud
• Design and manage storage, versioning, and distribution strategies for large versioned data assets (imagery, simulation data, maps, ML datasets)
• Support infrastructure for ML training workflows, including compute provisioning, dataset management, and experiment reproducibility
• Design, review, and maintain cloud infrastructure, managing reliability, security, and cost
• Establish developer workflows, automation, and documentation that improve reliability and engineering velocity across ASE
• Partner with perception, GNC, avionics, flight software, systems engineering, and mission operations teams to ensure cohesive system behavior
• Diagnose complex build, deployment, and infrastructure issues; contribute to architectural decisions, conduct technical reviews, and mentor other engineers

Job description

Firefly Aerospace is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own and evolve the cloud infrastructure and DevOps that power the Vision Navigation System and Guidance, Navigation & Control teams. You will build CI/CD systems, tooling, release management, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines that connect development, simulation, testing, and mission operations.

The ideal candidate has deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, build systems, and large data assets, with an appetite for