[Remote] Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Platform
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aalyria is a technology company developing laser communications and temporospatial software-defined networking platforms for the aerospace industry. The Software Engineer will join the Spacetime engineering team to build, deliver, operate, and continuously improve multicloud Kubernetes infrastructure and platform capabilities across commercial, government, secure, classified, and disconnected environments.
Responsibilities
- Build the foundations every Aalyria environment starts from: accounts and projects, networking, DNS and IPAM, identity and RBAC, quotas and policy
- Own Kubernetes cluster lifecycle end to end – provisioning, upgrades, addons – and the networking layer on top of it: Gateway API, service mesh, and zero-trust connectivity
- Keep patterns consistent across environments, and make the differences that cloud providers, security domains, and customers force on us deliberate
- Make disconnected deployment a first-class path: registry and artifact mirroring, hermetic builds, artifact sourcing with no egress, bootstrapping with no upstream, and out-of-band promotion
- Define how Spacetime is packaged and configured for Kubernetes, and decide where Helm, rendering, or custom controllers each belong
- Build the delivery path: GitOps reconciliation with Argo CD, IaC run orchestration, drift detection, OPA policy gates, and promotion between environments
- Own fleet-scale change mechanics – module and chart versioning, staged rollouts, migration paths, deprecation – so one change reaches every environment without breaking any of them
- Run what you build: availability, upgrades, capacity, observability, backup/recovery, security maintenance, and incident response
- Work with product and domain engineers, and turn their requirements into primitives other teams use on their own
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience with production infrastructure or distributed systems
- Strong software engineering fundamentals. You automate infrastructure in code instead of orchestrating it by hand
- Experience with AWS or GCP, infrastructure-as-code, cloud networking, and Kubernetes infrastructure
- Experience packaging and delivering software onto Kubernetes, with a good understanding of the tradeoffs between templating, rendering, and controller-based approaches
- This position involves access to export-controlled information. To comply with U.S. government export regulations, applicants must meet one of the following criteria:
- (A) Qualify as a U.S. person, which includes:
- * U.S. citizen or national
- * U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
- * Refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157
- * Asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158
- (B) Be eligible to access export-controlled information without requiring an export authorization
- (C) Be eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the necessary export authorization from the appropriate U.S. government agency
- Experience supporting classified, air-gapped, regulated, or otherwise constrained environments
- Experience with cloud landing zones, account and project vending, network architecture, DNS/IPAM, IAM foundations, workload identity, organizational policy, or quota management
- Experience with GitOps delivery and continuous reconciliation at scale – Argo CD, Flux, or comparable – including drift, promotion, and multi-environment rollouts
- Experience with Terraform or OpenTofu, including reusable modules and self-service provisioning
- Experience designing infrastructure platforms used by multiple internal engineering teams
Benefits
- Opportunities for professional development and advancement
- Collaborative, supportive, and inclusive workplace
- Flexible working arrangements including hybrid remote/in-office schedules
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Equity options
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