Software Infrastructure Engineer

• 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.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Math, Physics, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 2+ years of demonstrated experience in Software Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or Software Engineering
• Demonstrated experience with Git and CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI/CD, Github Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent).
• Demonstrated experience in at least one scripting or programming language (Python, Bash, or equivalent) used to build automation and developer tooling.
• Demonstrated experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Podman, or equivalent).
• Demonstrated experience with Linux systems, network configuration, and common networking protocols., * Demonstrated experience maintaining C++ build systems, including dependency management, toolchain configuration, and cross-platform builds using CMake, Make, Bazel, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) and configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent).
• Demonstrated experience designing or integrating CI/CD systems that automate build, test, packaging, and deployment workflows for complex software systems.
• Demonstrated experience packaging and supporting cross-platform source development kits (SDKs) or developer-facing software releases.
• 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.

Additional Information:

Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.

Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The high-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits. The flight-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers throughout LEO. Led by a team that delivered the most reliable rockets in history, Impulse provides economical and efficient in-space transportation by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.