System Development Engineer, Astra ADC

What you'll do

• Operate critical services across air-gapped and other isolated environments, maintaining reliability, security, and deployment parity.
• Build automation and tooling for deployment, orchestration, and builder operations.
• Troubleshoot complex distributed-systems and pipeline issues and improve the builder experience.

What they ask for

• Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional).
• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience; 1+ years of designing or architecting systems experience; and 4+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering.
• Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals, including networking, storage, and operating systems; programming experience in at least one modern language.
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret with SCI eligibility or above; must obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI with polygraph or commensurate agency clearance after starting.

Nice to have

• Experience with PowerShell, Python, Ruby, or Java.
• Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology.

Pay

129,200.00 - 174,800.00 USD annually (base salary)

Tools

Linux, Apollo, Pipelines, Test on Demand/Hydra, AppConfig, Multi-Region, PowerShell, Python

AI focus

Build AI-powered operational tooling; the team also operates AIM (AI agent infrastructure).