Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

What You’ll Do

• Adapt, own, and maintain infrastructure for large enterprise customers in the federal/defense space.
• Improve and continuously evaluate security configurations in self-hosted environments.
• Support customers in establishing and implementing compliant architectures, navigating the security and operational requirements for each deployment.
• Contribute directly to the product codebase to improve deployability, security, observability, and reliability across heterogeneous environments.
• Manage technical issues requiring deep debugging in novel environments with occasionally limited system and/or application context, and improve observability to make future debugging more efficient.

What We're Looking For

• Strong engineering foundation with a proven ability to build, debug, and maintain complex distributed systems.
• Demonstrated facility with/ownership of production Kubernetes clusters, whether through work, research, or substantial personal projects.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving distributed systems failures.
• Experience with IaC tools (Pulumi, Terraform, etc.).
• Comfort navigating unfamiliar codebases.

What We Value

• Broad Knowledge of Computing - Possess a broad practical understanding of networking, operating systems, cybersecurity, and related fields.
• Iterative Thinking - Experiment and be willing to try untested approaches in developing solutions to problems.
• Communication Skill - Exceptional communication skills, especially in translating between engineering, infrastructure, and non-technical audiences.
• Autodidacticism - Ability to learn and apply new concepts quickly in environments with real-world consequences (e.g., early-stage startup experience, applied research lab work, etc.).
• Instinct to Automate (Engineering over Ops) - When dealing with redundant tasks, you seek to engineer solutions to reduce operational toil.

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting regulated environments like FedRAMP environments and implementing compliance requirements for CMMC, NIST SP 800-53, IL-5/6, FedRAMP Moderate.
• Previous experience as a forward- deployed engineer working in the government sector.
• TS/SCI clearance

You’ll Probably Like This Job if You

• Deeply value autonomy in identifying ways to build more secure, reliable, and available systems.
• Have broken and rebuilt infrastructure to understand how it works.
• Have a security mindset and are comfortable working in sensitive environments.
• Have been deeply curious about computing since early in your life, and/or you maintain side projects, homelabs, or personal experiments.
• Care about America and her interests (non-negotiable).

Due to the nature of this role, only U.S. Persons will be considered.