Software Engineer (Colorado)

Job overview

The Software Engineer (Colorado) role is listed onsite in Colorado Springs, CO; compensation is not specified. The engineer supports Kestrel’s work building scalable autonomy systems for commercial and national security customers. The role develops infrastructure, deployment pipelines, data processing, and software components that support complex missions across domains. Its infrastructure and compliance work is intended to enable reliable deployments across commercial cloud and future government environments.

What you'll do

• Design and deploy infrastructure using Terraform
• lead deployment of Python-based APIs to cloud environments
• establish infrastructure practices for environment separation, secure networking, IAM, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and alerting
• design and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines
• apply AWS GovCloud and DoD IL experience to compliance-ready infrastructure
• design multi-cloud deployment patterns
• advise on future government deployments
• identify and mitigate infrastructure and compliance risks.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

software engineer

colorado springs co

kestrel intelligence

python apis

terraform

aws govcloud

dod il

github actions

ci/cd

multi-cloud

u.s. citizen

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

The posting requires U.S. citizenship. Active TS//SCI clearance with counterintelligence-scope or full-scope polygraph is listed as a bonus. Washington, DC-area candidates and customer-site work in Crystal City, VA and Herndon, VA are also mentioned as a bonus.

About the employer

Kestrel Intelligence is hiring for this role. Industry: Custom Computer Programming Services. Sector: 54.