Software Infrastructure Architect

About Castelion

Castelion is bringing a new approach to defense development and production: one that focuses on short, iterative design cycles, rapid testing in development, and modern commercial manufacturing strategies for production at scale. Welre designing, building, and testing next generation long range strike weapons systems to give America and its Allies a definitive edge and deter future conflicts.

Software Infrastructure Architect

As a Software Infrastructure Architect you will be at the forefront of architecting, developing, and testing the software that drives data infrastructure. Your role involves close collaboration with fellow Castelion engineers across software and hardware domains to implement and debug data infrastructure software across the entire technology stack from automation of testing to management of lab, test, and flight data ensuring complete mission success. We seek intelligent, collaborative, and driven engineers who are passionate about problem-solving and eager to contribute to an extraordinary mission. If you thrive in challenging environments and are excited by the prospect of making a tangible impact, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

System Architecture: Define architecture and develop software to support test automation, CI/CD, telemetry storage and visualization.

Comprehensive Software Development: Manage the entire software development process, from architecture definition to software development and deployment for mission-critical applications.

Project Leadership: Collaborate with hardware designers, manufacturing engineers and flight software developers to define infrastructure needs. Develop and execute software infrastructure roadmaps.

Enhance Standards and Practices: Continuously improve software standards and best practices within the software team, fostering an environment of ongoing improvement and innovation.

Basic Qualifications

Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, math, or a related STEM field, along with over 5 years of professional software engineering experience.

Technical Proficiency: Minimum of 3 years of experience with Python and SQL.

Preferred Skills and Experience

Programming Expertise: Proven proficiency in Python or similar systems programming languages. Experience with SQL databases and cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS etc).

System Experience: Track record of designing and building scalable data solutions. Experience with CI/CD pipelines for embedded hardware systems.

Technical Skills: Proficiency in Linux, network troubleshooting, and performance analysis with strong skills in debugging, performance optimization, and unit testing.

Problem-Solving: Innovative problem-solving approach using first-principles thinking, including developing prototypes to validate key design concepts and quantify technical constraints.

All employees are granted long-term stock incentives as part of their employment as Castelion. All employees receive access to comprehensive medial, vision, and dental insurance, and the company offers three weeks of paid time off per year.

Leadership Qualities

Bias to Action and Creative Problem Solving. Desire and experience questioning assumptions in ways that lead to break through ideas that are ultimately implemented. Successfully bring in applicable processes/concepts/materials from other industries to achieve efficiency gains. Ability to personally resolve minor issues in development without requiring significant support.

High Commitment, High Initiative. A successful candidate will have a genuine passion for Castelion's mission and consistently look for ways to contribute to the company's technical goals and prevent hardware blockers. Ability to work in a fast paced, autonomously driven, and demanding atmosphere. Strong sense of accountability and integrity.

Clear Communicator. Proactively communicates blockers. Trusted in previous roles to be voice of company with regulators, suppliers, gate keepers and customers. Capable of tactfully managing relationships with stakeholders to achieve company-desired outcomes without compromising relationships. Emails, IMs and verbal interactions are logical, drive clarity, and detailed enough to eliminate ambiguity.

ITAR Requirements:

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Employment with Castelion is governed on the basis of 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.