Staff DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Expand and replicate build and CI/CD functionalities into classified and air-gapped settings.

• Design, establish, and maintain on-premises physical build infrastructure, encompassing servers, storage, networking, and build clusters.

• Choose hardware, rack and install equipment, provision systems, and oversee infrastructure lifecycles.

• Architect and support multi-classification deployments along with the controlled transfer of source code, dependencies, artifacts, and containers across network boundaries.

• Collaborate with Security, IT, and ISSM/ISSO teams to fulfill accreditation and compliance mandates.

• Take ownership of the software build and delivery process from developer workstations through CI and deployment.

• Enhance developer efficiency by minimizing build and test cycle durations and eliminating pipeline bottlenecks.

• Work closely with Software Engineers to comprehend requirements, propose designs, and execute solutions.

• Partner with developers to troubleshoot build and test failures and establish integration best practices.

• Integrate CI pipelines with HIL and simulation environments for automated validation.

• Implement monitoring, dashboards, and alerts for build-system performance across development, CI, and classified environments.

• Utilize agentic solutions to identify root causes of build failures and direct feedback to the responsible Software Engineers.

• Support build and delivery infrastructure for autonomous aircraft software, including XBAT, VBAT, and BlueSky.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 7+ years of industry experience (or a Master’s/PhD with 5+ years).

• Capability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.

• Practical experience in provisioning and managing physical servers and on-premises infrastructure.

• Knowledge and hands-on experience with AI tools, including LLMs, coding assistants, and agentic workflows.

• Strong grasp of dependency management, artifact repositories, and package managers such as Conan, CPM, and pip.

• Proficiency in containers and orchestration, including Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud build clusters.

• Excellent scripting abilities in Python and Bash.

• Hands-on experience in integrating automated testing into CI pipelines.

• Proven success in enhancing developer productivity at scale.

• Documented history of excellence as a primary contributor on projects, navigating development cycles, overcoming challenges, and delivering high-quality solutions in a fast-paced environment.

• Proficiency with CI/CD tools including Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and GitLab.

• Experience in cloud operations with Azure, AWS, and GCP, including government cloud regions such as Azure Government and AWS GovCloud.

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Ansible.

• Acquainted with monitoring tools including Grafana and Prometheus.

• Background in robotics, autonomy, or aerospace systems.

• Eligibility to work in the United States and meet export-control requirements as applicable.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive pay within the listed range + Bonus + Benefits + Equity for full-time regular employees.

• Temporary benefits package available after 60 days of employment for temporary workers.

• Equity.

• Bonus.

• Benefits.

• Equal employment opportunity workplace.

• Accommodation for disability or special needs.