Principal Engineer Software

Description

The company's space systems unit is building and fielding a new ground-based radar for Space Domain Awareness (SDA) missions.

As a software engineer, you will be a core member of the technical group, working on the software that runs mission execution, system control, data processing and long-term sustainment of the radar.

The company wants someone with a solid base in software engineering who can apply systems engineering principles to define, build, test, debug and document software across the program.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement software for mission execution, system control and data processing.
• Integrate software components and support the radar's software over the long term.
• Define, develop, test, debug and document software solutions across the program with the team.

Requirements

• Software development in Java.
• Building services or microservices with Spring Boot.
• Container tools such as Docker or Podman.
• Deploying and orchestrating containers with Kubernetes.
• GitLab and CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test and deployment.
• Software development in a Linux environment.
• RESTful APIs and JSON-based interfaces.
• Unit and integration testing with tools such as JUnit or Mockito.
• Relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, with basic SQL.
• Debugging Java and Linux systems with IDE debuggers, jstack, jmap, strace, gdb and log-based debugging.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• An active U.S. Government Secret clearance, current and within scope, at the time you apply.
• Either 5 years of experience with a bachelor's degree in a STEM field, or 3 years with a master's degree in a STEM field. Without a degree, 4 additional years of experience are required.
• Preferred: experience with cloud-native or on-premise distributed systems.
• Preferred: designing and implementing microservice architectures.
• Preferred: message-based or streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Preferred: API gateways and service discovery mechanisms.
• Preferred: infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible, Terraform or Helm.
• Preferred: monitoring, logging and observability for containerized applications, for example Prometheus, Grafana or an ELK/EFK stack.
• Preferred: root-cause analysis in distributed systems using logs, traces and metrics.
• Preferred: profiling and tuning Java applications with tools such as VisualVM, JFR, JMC or async profilers.
• Preferred: logging and error-handling strategies that support production debugging.
• Preferred: secure coding practices and a basic grasp of cybersecurity principles.
• Preferred: Agile or Scrum development methods.
• Preferred: integrating with C/C++ or other languages in mixed-technology systems.
• Preferred: real-time or mission-critical work, such as radar, command and control, or other defense applications.
• Preferred: DevSecOps practices and automated security scanning in CI/CD, such as SAST or DAST tools.

Conditions

A Secret clearance is required to start.

Travel is 10% of the time.

Relocation assistance may be available.

The application period is estimated at 20 days from the posting date, but may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

Benefits

• Primary level base salary range of $103,600.00 - $155,400.00, a general guide; the offer depends on scope, responsibilities, experience, education, skills and market conditions.
• Depending on the position, possible overtime, shift differential and a discretionary bonus. Annual bonuses reward individual contributions and share company results.
• Vice President and Director roles may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
• Health insurance, life and disability insurance and a savings plan.
• Company-paid holidays and paid time off for vacation and personal business.