Senior Software Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Software Engineer role is onsite in Colorado Springs, CO. Compensation is not specified. The engineer supports Kestrel Intelligence’s work building scalable autonomy systems for commercial and national security customers. The role leads software and infrastructure design, develops production services and data pipelines, and integrates components of an agentic AI architecture. It also sets technical direction, strengthens engineering practices, and mentors engineers to support reliable systems for complex missions.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade Python APIs and services
• architect scalable geospatial and sensor data pipelines
• develop and integrate agentic AI components
• deploy Python services to cloud environments and design infrastructure with Terraform
• build CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• establish engineering and infrastructure practices for environments, networking, IAM, secrets, logging, monitoring, and alerting
• apply prior AWS GovCloud and DoD IL experience to compliance-ready systems
• plan for multi-cloud and future government deployments
• identify technical, infrastructure, and compliance risks
• mentor engineers, lead code reviews, and shape the technical roadmap.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior software engineer

python

apis

distributed systems

geospatial data

agentic ai

aws govcloud

dod il

terraform

github actions

colorado springs co

us citizenship

kestrel intelligence

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Seven or more years of professional software engineering experience required. US citizenship required. Active TS/SCI clearance with counterintelligence-scope or full-scope polygraph is listed as a bonus qualification.

About the employer

Kestrel Intelligence is hiring for this role. Industry: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology). Sector: 54.