Senior Software Engineer — Geospatial AI & Cloud Systems

Kestrel Intelligence; Virginia; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kestrel is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the design and development of data structures, data processing pipelines, APIs, and AI architecture components. You will set technical direction, make key architecture decisions, and raise the engineering bar across the team.

This role focuses on geospatial science, AWS GovCloud and DoD IL considerations, and multi-cloud deployment patterns while mentoring engineers and shaping the team's roadmap.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience with API development and distributed or service-oriented systems.
• Experience designing large-scale software and infrastructure architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade Python APIs and services.
• Architect and implement scalable data processing pipelines for geospatial and sensor data.
• Develop and integrate components of Kestrel’s agentic AI architecture.
• Lead the deployment of Python-based services to cloud environments, and design supporting infrastructure using Terraform.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Mentor other engineers, lead code reviews, and shape the team’s technical roadmap.

Skills

API development

Distributed systems

Leadership

Code reviews

Tools

Python

Terraform

AWS

GitHub Actions

Job description

Kestrel is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the design and development of data structures, data processing pipelines, APIs, and AI architecture components. You will set technical direction, make key architecture decisions, and raise the engineering bar across the team.

This role focuses on geospatial science, AWS GovCloud and DoD IL considerations, and multi-cloud deployment patterns while mentoring engineers and shaping the team's roadmap.