Software Engineer (Remote)

Kestrel Intelligence is building scalable autonomy systems for commercial and national security missions. The Software Engineer will develop infrastructure, CI/CD artifacts, data-processing systems, agentic AI components, and user-interface components, with an emphasis on cloud deployment and geospatial science.

Responsibilities:

• Design and deploy our infrastructure using Terraform
• Lead the deployment of Python-based APIs to cloud environments
• 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

Requirements:

• Must be a US Citizen
• Experience with large-scale infrastructure architecture
• prior AWS GovCloud and DoD IL experience
• Strong software engineering background
• API development
• Distributed or service-oriented systems
• Prior experience designing or operating multi-cloud environments
• Active Top Secret // Specially Compartmented Information (TS//SCI) clearance with counterintelligence-scope polygraph (CSP) or full-scope polygraph (FSP)