Software Infrastructure Engineer

Join Impulse Space as a Software Infrastructure Engineer, where you will design, implement, and operate the infrastructure, tooling, and workflows used to build, release, deploy, and test spacecraft. You will collaborate with Software and GNC engineers to create reliable, automated deployment and test systems, and continuously improve automated build, integration, test, and deployment pipelines. This position offers competitive benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, company ownership, and a flexible PTO policy.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate the infrastructure, tooling, and workflows used to build, release, deploy, and test software.
• Collaborate with Software and GNC engineers to create reliable, automated deployment and test systems for multiple spacecraft and hardware-in-the-loop test platforms.
• Develop and maintain systems for deploying binaries and other software artifacts to spacecraft hardware used for flight and hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testing.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience with Git and CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI/CD, Github Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent)
• 2+ years of demonstrated experience in Software Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or Software Engineering
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Math, Physics, Engineering, or a related technical field
• Demonstrated experience in at least one scripting or programming language (Python, Bash, or equivalent) used to build automation and developer tooling
• Demonstrated experience with Linux systems, network configuration, and common networking protocols
• Impulse Space’s spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder), an individual granted asylum in the U.S., or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, or other applicable U.S. government agencies
• Demonstrated experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) and configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent)
• Demonstrated experience maintaining C++ build systems, including dependency management, toolchain configuration, and cross-platform builds using CMake, Make, Bazel, or equivalent
• Demonstrated experience packaging and supporting cross-platform source development kits (SDKs) or developer-facing software releases
• Demonstrated experience designing or integrating CI/CD systems that automate build, test, packaging, and deployment workflows for complex software systems

Preferred

• Demonstrated experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Podman, or equivalent)
• Demonstrated experience managing build configurations, versioned releases, and software artifacts for multiple targets from a shared codebase, including release automation, SBOM generation, or software configuration management

Pay

USD 130,000 - 280,000