Software Engineer, DevEx & Tools

As a Software Engineer, DevEx & Tools, you'll build and improve the developer tools, infrastructure, and workflows that help Software and GNC engineers build, test, release, and debug code. That covers CI/CD, releases, and developer/test environments.

The goal is to make things easier for engineers while keeping the delivery systems reliable, automated, observable, and ready for mission and test environments. ## Responsibilities - Partner with Software and GNC teams to develop, operate, and continuously improve automated build, integration, test, and deployment pipelines. - Develop and maintain systems for software versioning, release management, and configuration control across multiple deployment targets. - Improve the day-to-day developer experience through tools, documentation, automation, templates, and self-service workflows for common engineering tasks. - Develop and maintain containerized development, build, and test environments used by engineers, CI runners, and HITL platforms. - Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management automation to provision and operate CI, developer tooling, and HITL infrastructure. - Deep dive into your users’ problems to find and create efficient solutions ## Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Math, Physics, Engineering, or a related technical field. - 2+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Software Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or Software Productivity - Demonstrated experience with Git and CI/CD tools (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. - Strong debugging and systems-thinking skills, with the ability to diagnose issues across software, build systems, infrastructure, and networked environments. ## Preferred Skills and Experience - Demonstrated experience improving developer experience, internal developer platforms, build systems, release engineering, or software tooling for a multi-engineer software organization. - 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 building 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 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’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. Learn more about the ITAR here .

Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.