Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

GovDash helps businesses win and deliver government contracts that advance American interests. We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure) to take ownership over a portfolio of self-hosted deployments in varied environments, from cloud to air-gapped on-prem, and the software that bootstraps and manages them.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Retirement Plan
• Visa Sponsorship