Why this role stands out
This hybrid role offers a competitive salary up to $220K and significant growth opportunities for a skilled Software Engineer with an active Top Secret SCI with Poly clearance. You'll thrive by leveraging your extensive backend Java and big data experience to develop critical middleware and backend services, contributing to impactful projects within a reputable company. Apply now to join a dynamic team and advance your career in a flexible work environment.
Quick overview
Job description
Build scalable AI/ML solutions, data pipelines, and web applications that support intelligence analysis.
Location: Chantilly, VA Salary: Up to $250K (salary is commensurate with education and experience) Clearance: Active TOP SECRET with Polygraph required Job Code: 11122026-005694-M578-01 The Opportunity Position within a team supporting the customer with data engineering and operations, software engineering, security engineering, DevOps engineering, application development, data science, and program management in support of data acquisition, exploitation, engineering, and management tasks. Communicate and collaborate across organizational boundaries, to include other contractor teams, Customer staff and external stakeholders. Required Experience
- Demonstrated experience with Kubernetes
- Demonstrated experience as a full stack developer, including frontend and backend development with technology stacks such as SpringBoot, Django, Flask, Angular, jQuery, or React.
- Demonstrated experience using programming languages such as Java, Python, Shell Scripting (bash), Javascript.
- Demonstrated experience in AWS cloud technologies and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
- Demonstrated experience interacting with cross-functional teams including software development, data engineering, system engineering and security.
- Demonstrated experience with Agile practices and methodologies.
- Demonstrated experience working with Devops continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) related technologies.
- Demonstrated experience working with deployment automation techniques such as Ansible, Git, Jenkins, Puppet, Docker, Confluence, and Junit.
- Demonstrated experience working with cloud devops automation capabilities such as “cloud-init”, AWS CloudFormation, or HashiCorp Terraform.
- Demonstrated experience with the software configuration management lifecycle.
- Demonstrated experience working with large scale data technologies such as Elasticsearch, Presto/Trino, or Apache Spark.
- Demonstrated experience working within a low to high development/deployment environment
- Demonstrated experience optimizing tools and services to leverage large scale data technologies such as Elasticsearch, Presto/Trino, or Apache Spark.
- Demonstrated experience developing ETL automation tools and services.
- Demonstrated experience in prototype development for novel tools and services.
- Demonstrated experience integrating Sponsor security requirements into Sponsor tools and systems.
- Master’s degree in engineering, computer science, mathematics, or comparable area of study.
- Demonstrated experience resolving malformed character encoding.
- Demonstrated experience reading Mandarin Chinese at the 2 level or higher, based on the Sponsor’s or similar rating scale.
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