GovDash

AI platform for government contracts

SeniorSoftwareEngineer(Infrastructure)

$190–250k New York, New York, United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure) at GovDash. Skills: Distributed systems, Kubernetes, IaC tools. Adapt, own, and maintain infrastructure. Improve and continuously evaluate security configurations”

Industry & Context.

AI platform for government contracts
Problems you'll solve

proven ability to build, debug, and maintain complex distributed systems; Experience diagnosing and resolving distributed systems failures; Manage technical issues requiring deep debugging

Eligibility Requirements

only U. S. Persons will be considered, TS/SCI clearance

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

engineering foundation with a proven ability to build, debug, and maintain complex distributed systems, Demonstrated facility with/ownership of production Kubernetes clusters, Experience diagnosing and resolving distributed systems failures, Experience with IaC tools (Pulumi, Terraform, etc.), Comfort navigating unfamiliar codebases

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

What You'll Do.

and maintain infrastructure

Improve and continuously evaluate security configurations

Support customers in establishing compliant architectures

Contribute directly to the product codebase

Manage technical issues requiring deep debugging

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate with customers and product engineering teams; translating between engineering, infrastructure, and non-technical audiences

Communication Scope

Exceptional communication skills

Full 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

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