Lead/Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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Armada

Compensation

$187,500 - $234,400/year

Bellevue Office, Sunset Corporate Campus

Hybrid

Posted April 15, 2026

Job Description

About the Company

Armada is a full-stack edge infrastructure company delivering compute, connectivity, and sovereign AI/ML to some of the world’s most remote places. Named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, Armada’s solutions are deployed in over 60 countries globally for organizations ranging from energy to defense.

With over $200 million in funding, Armada is backed by top investors such as Microsoft (M12), Founders Fund, and has strategic partnerships including Starlink, Skydio, and NVIDIA. We are looking for the most brilliant minds in the world to join us.

Working at Armada means taking ownership, driving autonomy, and delivering impact. You’ll tackle challenges that haven’t been solved before and help build something transformative from the ground up. What you do here will not only define your career but help further Armada’s mission to bridge the digital divide for customers around the world.

About the role

We are seeking a Lead/Staff Software Engineer to join our Edge organization and drive the technical vision across our Platform, Security, and Networking domains. This is a leadership role for a visionary engineer who lives at the intersection of software, networking, and platform infrastructure.

You will lead the overarching architectural strategy for the core services that power the Armada Edge Platform, defining the integration fabric that unifies a hybrid fleet of Azure Local, OpenShift, and Kubernetes clusters at a global scale. As a technical multiplier, you will also guide the automation software strategy that provisions and manages our physical network fabric, overseeing the architecture that bootstraps firewalls and switches alongside our compute nodes.

Location. This role is office-based at our Bellevue, Washington office.

What You'll Do (Key Responsibilities)

Technical Strategy & Leadership: Define and drive long-term technical roadmaps for the Edge organization, ensuring architectural alignment across platform engineering, observability, networking, and security capabilities. Mentor a team of highly skilled engineers, fostering a culture of rigorous engineering excellence.
Advanced Edge Orchestration: Architect the next-generation control plane and robust infrastructure services that abstract platform complexity, creating a unified API for deploying to Azure Local, OpenShift, and standard Kubernetes clusters. Direct the engineering of complex, highly scalable Zero‑Touch Provisioning (ZTP) workflows for bare‑metal compute nodes.
Network Systems Architecture: Lead the design of software services in Golang and Python to automate the provisioning and lifecycle management of Juniper SRX firewalls and switches. Champion intent-based networking paradigms, building automated workflows for ZTP of network gear programmatically via Netconf/YANG or XML APIs.
Zero-Trust Security Vision: Pioneer the organization's security software components, dictating enterprise standards for automated certificate management (PKI) and secure identity bootstrapping (SPIFFE/SPIRE). Oversee the implementation of software to enforce Zero Trust principles, ensuring strict, secure attestation of compute nodes and network devices.

Required Qualifications

Software Engineering Leadership: 12+ years of professional development experience, with a proven track record as a Staff or Principal-level engineer focusing on backend systems, distributed architecture, platform engineering, or network automation.
Golang Expertise: Expert-level proficiency in Golang (7+ years preferred), with extensive experience architecting highly scalable syste

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