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Software Engineer with Security Clearance
Mount Indie, LLCSan Diego, CA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 15 Jul 2026
Why This Role Stands Out
This role offers a fantastic opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge defense technologies, fostering significant career growth within a supportive, high-functioning team environment. You'll thrive here if you're a mid-senior Software Engineer passionate about building secure, mission-critical applications and eager to develop your skills across the full software development lifecycle in a hybrid setting. We encourage you to apply and explore how you can make a real impact.
Quick Overview
Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior
Job Description
About this role: This role will support the agile development of innovative communications, networking, and computing solutions for U.S. defense agencies that improve the sharing of information among warfighters distributed throughout airborne, maritime, and ground environments. We're looking for an early career Software Engineer to help us build, ship, and secure world class, mission critical software deployed across a variety of platforms and environments. The ideal candidate will have a background in Computer Science and a love of the craft of software development who's ready to begin growing their career in a supportive environment. If this sounds like a fit for your career ambitions, we want to meet you! What you'll do: * Join a team of high-functioning software engineers developing next generation embedded applications from the kernel to the UI. * Contribute to the Software Development Life Cycle for multiple projects * Contribute to functional and operational level software test events * Input for system and network design and configuration * Input for corporate software development process and areas of expertise * Work as a team throughout the design process, supporting sprint planning sessions, code reviews, and scrums * Provide input for project planning and proposals * Implement high level designs in robust, maintainable software * Troubleshoot and address bugs and issues * Support documentation such as system description documents and test reports * Participate and provide guidance during on-going code reviews * Implement security requirements onto system components * Work closely with the operational Project Management team to maintain successful development sprints and stay on schedule Requirements * BS degree in Computer Science * Academic or real world experience with at least one strongly typed language (preferably C/C++, but Java, C#, Rust, Go, Zig, etc will do). * Working knowledge of design patterns. * Must be a U.S. Citizen and have the ability to obtain a US SECRET clearance Nice to have: * Working knowledge of networking protocols and Linux DevOps processes including writing Python and Bash deployment scripts and setting up automated testing and Gitlab * Experience in agile, professional SW development environments utilizing revision control, test driven development, and continuous integration * Experience with build systems (npm, conan, maven, etc) * Exposure to webdev tech stacks: React, Postgres, APIs, javascript, etc. * Exposure to containerization
Skills
Rust
Agile
Bash
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
React
Zig
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