Senior Software Engineer, Geospatial AI & Cloud Systems

Kestrel Intelligence; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Kestrel Intelligence seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead design and development of data structures, APIs, and components of an agentic AI architecture for scalable geospatial systems. You will set technical direction, influence architecture, and mentor teammates, operating at the bleeding edge of geospatial science.

Based in the United States, you will work on production Python services, cloud deployments with Terraform, and multi-cloud patterns, with occasional on-site work at customer

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping production systems.
• Experience with API development and distributed/service-oriented systems.
• Experience designing large-scale software and infrastructure architecture.
• Must be a US Citizen.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade Python APIs and services.
• Architect scalable data processing pipelines for geospatial and sensor data.
• Develop components of Kestrel’s agentic AI architecture.
• Lead deployment of Python-based services to cloud environments, and design supporting infrastructure using Terraform.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Establish engineering and infrastructure best practices from the ground up, including environment separation, secure networking, IAM, logging and monitoring.
• Apply AWS GovCloud and DoD IL experience to build compliant systems and guide future government deployments.
• Design multi-cloud deployment patterns with cloud-agnostic Terraform modules.
• Plan and advise on GovCloud/DoD IL deployments, even if not live yet.
• Identify and mitigate technical, infrastructure, and compliance risks early.
• Mentor engineers, lead code reviews, and shape the team's technical roadmap.

Skills

API development

Distributed systems

Large-scale architecture

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Job description

Kestrel Intelligence seeks a Senior Software Engineer to lead design and development of data structures, APIs, and components of an agentic AI architecture for scalable geospatial systems. You will set technical direction, influence architecture, and mentor teammates, operating at the bleeding edge of geospatial science.

Based in the United States, you will work on production Python services, cloud deployments with Terraform, and multi-cloud patterns, with occasional on-site work at customer