Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

Job description

GovDash helps businesses win and deliver government contracts that advance American interests. Our AI platform is a single, secure, workflow-driven system for the full contracting lifecycle, from opportunity discovery and capture through proposal execution, award, and post-award operations. In 2025 alone, GovDash customers won more than $5B in government contracts. We’ve raised $42M to move faster on product and scale GovDash nationwide. About the Role We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure) to take ownership over a portfolio of self-hosted deployments in varied environments, from cloud to air-gapped on-prem, and the software that bootstraps and manages them. You’ll collaborate with customers and product engineering teams to expand the functionality of our self-hosted control plane, covering licensing, observability, automated updates, and more. This role requires an individual capable of managing high-level architecture and design, focused implementation work, and communicating with customers. Our team prides itself on our curiosity and dedication to our craft. As such, engineers joining our team should expect a high bar for technical excellence and a high degree of ownership and responsibility over the technical direction of large aspects of GovDash’s infrastructure. This role has a $190,000 base salary plus equity and is based in New York City. What You’ll Do - Adapt, own, and maintain infrastructure for large enterprise customers in the federal/defense space. - Improve and continuously evaluate security configurations in self-hosted environments. - Support customers in establishing and implementing compliant architectures, navigating the security and operational requirements for each deployment. - Contribute directly to the product codebase to improve deployability, security, observability, and reliability across heterogeneous environments. - Manage technical issues requiring deep debugging in novel environments with occasionally limited system and/or application context, and improve observability to make future debugging more efficient. What We're Looking For - Strong engineering foundation with a proven ability to build, debug, and maintain complex distributed systems. - Demonstrated facility with/ownership of production Kubernetes clusters, whether through work, research, or substantial personal projects. - Experience diagnosing and resolving distributed systems failures. - Experience with IaC tools (Pulumi, Terraform, etc.). - Comfort navigating unfamiliar codebases. What We Value - Broad Knowledge of Computing - Possess a broad practical understanding of networking, operating systems, cybersecurity, and related fields. - Iterative Thinking - Experiment and be willing to try untested approaches in developing solutions to problems. - Communication Skill - Exceptional communication skills, especially in translating between engineering, infrastructure, and non-technical audiences. - Autodidacticism - Ability to learn and apply new concepts quickly in environments with real-world consequences (e.g., early-stage startup experience, applied research lab work, etc.). - Instinct to Automate (Engineering over Ops) - When dealing with redundant tasks, you seek to engineer solutions to reduce operational toil. Nice to Have - Experience supporting regulated environments like FedRAMP environments and implementing compliance requirements for CMMC, NIST SP 800-53, IL-5/6, FedRAMP Moderate. - Previous experience as a forward- deployed engineer working in the government sector. - TS/SCI clearance You’ll Probably Like This Job if You - Deeply value autonomy in identifying ways to build more secure, reliable, and available systems. - Have broken and rebuilt infrastructure to understand how it works. - Have a security mindset and are comfortable working in sensitive environments. - Have been deeply curious about computing since early in your life, and/or you maintain side projects, homelabs, or personal experiments. - Care about America and her interests (non-negotiable). Due to the nature of this role, only U.S. Persons will be considered.