Software Engineer (Fully Remote)

Kestrel; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kestrel builds scalable autonomy systems for national security and commercial customers. This role focuses on cloud infrastructure, automation, and secure multi-cloud deployments, including GovCloud considerations.

The successful candidate will design secure network architectures, manage IAM and secrets, and contribute to data processing pipelines for geospatial systems. Proximity to key locations is preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience building and deploying cloud infrastructure with Terraform.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and data processing pipelines for geospatial systems.
• Design environment separation, secure networking, IAM, and secrets management.
• Support multi-cloud deployments across commercial and GovCloud environments.
• Advise on AWS GovCloud and DoD IL compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and data processing pipelines for geospatial systems.
• Design environment separation, secure networking, IAM, and secrets management.
• Support multi-cloud deployments across commercial and GovCloud environments.
• Advise on AWS GovCloud and DoD IL compliance requirements.

Skills

Terraform

CI/CD

Geospatial

Tools

AWS GovCloud

Job description

• Build and deploy cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and data processing pipelines for geospatial systems.

Core Responsibilities:

• Design environment separation, secure networking, IAM, and secrets management.
• Support multi-cloud deployments across commercial and GovCloud environments.
• Advise on AWS GovCloud and DoD IL compliance requirements.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience with API development and distributed systems.
• Active TS//SCI clearance and proximity to Colorado Springs or Washington DC.

Kestrel

Kestrel builds scalable autonomy systems for commercial and national security customers across space, air, land, and sea. The company blends AI, orbital dynamics, and geospatial expertise with a culture of engineering rigor and mission focus.