Software Engineer (Remote)

Kestrel Intelligence; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

TS/SCI clearance required

Job summary

Kestrel Intelligence seeks a Software Engineer to advance CI/CD artifacts, data structures, pipelines, and agentic AI components. You will push the boundaries of geospatial systems while maintaining high engineering rigor and mission focus.

The role emphasizes Terraform deployment, cloud-based APIs, and multi-cloud patterns with GovCloud/DoD IL experience to ensure compliance for sensitive, national-security applications. U.S. citizenship is required.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and deploying CI/CD artifacts and data processing pipelines.
• Experience with large-scale infrastructure architecture and multi-cloud deployment patterns.
• Knowledge of Terraform, AWS GovCloud, and DoD IL deployment requirements.
• Strong focus on security, IAM, secrets management, logging, monitoring and alerting.
• Ability to establish infrastructure best practices across dev/staging/prod environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy infrastructure using Terraform across environments.
• Lead deployment of Python-based APIs to cloud environments.
• Leverage experience with large-scale infrastructure to support mission requirements.
• Establish secure networking, IAM, secrets management, logging, monitoring and alerting.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Apply GovCloud and DoD IL knowledge to enable compliant deployments.
• Plan multi-cloud patterns with cloud-agnostic Terraform modules.
• Advise on future GovCloud and DoD IL deployments, even if not live yet.
• Identify and mitigate infrastructure and compliance risks early.

Skills

Python programming

CI/CD engineering

Cloud architecture

Security/compliance

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

AWS GovCloud

DoD IL

Job description

The Mission

At Kestrel, we are building the future of scalable autonomy across domains. Our systems enable commercial and national security customers to sense and act in support of complex missions without significant autonomous system expertise. This technology bridges domains (e.g., space, air, land, sea) and fields (e.g., AI, orbital dynamics, geospatial), requiring a team that has both breadth and depth in these related topics.

The Role

As a Kestrel Software Engineer, you will lead the development of CI/CD artifacts, data structures, data processing pipelines, components of an agentic AI architecture, and user interface components. You will work at the bleeding edge of geospatial science. This role requires adaptability, engineering rigor, and a deep respect for the mission.

Core Responsibilities

• Design and deploy our infrastructure using Terraform
• Lead the deployment of Python-based APIs to cloud environments
• Experience with large-scale infrastructure architecture
• Establish infrastructure best practices from the ground up, including: Environment separation (dev / staging / prod); Secure networking, IAM, and secrets management; Logging, monitoring, and alerting
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Apply prior AWS GovCloud and DoD IL experience to ensure: Compliance-ready infrastructure; Architecture choices that will not block future government deployments
• Design infrastructure and deployment patterns that support multi-cloud environments, including: Cloud-agnostic Terraform module design where practical; Minimizing provider lock-in for core services; Supporting future deployments across commercial cloud and GovCloud environments
• Plan and advise on future AWS GovCloud and DoD IL deployments, even if those environments are not immediately live
• Identify and mitigate infrastructure and compliance risks early

Bonus

• Strong software engineering background is a plus, particularly: API development; Distributed or service-oriented systems; Prior experience designing or operating multi-cloud environments is a plus

Based near the Colorado Springs, CO or Washington, DC (working in customer sites in Crystal City, VA and Herndon, VA) areas

Active Top Secret // Specially Compartmented Information (TS//SCI) clearance with counterintelligence-scope polygraph (CSP) or full-scope polygraph (FSP)

Must be a US Citizen