Software Infrastructure Engineer

• As a Software Infrastructure Engineer, you will design, implement, and operate the infrastructure, tooling, and workflows used to build, release, deploy, and test
• You will collaborate with Software and GNC engineers to create reliable, automated deployment and test systems for multiple spacecraft and hardware-in-the-loop test platforms
• Partner with Software and GNC teams to develop, operate, and continuously improve automated build, integration, test, and deployment pipelines
• Design, develop, and maintain systems for deploying binaries and other software artifacts to spacecraft hardware used for flight and hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testing
• Develop reliable, automated deployment workflows that support software releases and test operations at launch and test sites
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and data-analysis capabilities supporting continuous integration, release readiness, and test operations
• Develop and maintain containerized environments and infrastructure-as-code automation to provision, configure, and operate CI, HITL, and test-site infrastructure

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision: Enjoy the best medical, dental and optical coverage money can buy. We’ve got you and your family covered for all eventualities
• Company Ownership: You’ll be contributing to Impulse’s success, so you deserve to share in it. All full-time employees receive a meaningful equity allocation
• Flexible PTO Policy: We believe in work-life harmony more so than “balance”. When you are happy & fulfilled outside of work, you will be more productive when you’re in it. We offer generous PTO accrual to our full-time employees
• Demonstrated experience with Git and CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI/CD, Github Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent)
• Demonstrated experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Podman, 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
• 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