Software Engineer - Senior

Description

The company is a technology firm that serves the US federal government, with clients in defense, national security, public safety, civilian agencies, and military health.

Over 13,000 people work at the company, which is part of a larger global organization.

This is a senior software engineer role focused on building and maintaining software that is secure, scalable, and fast, and that supports modernization and operational goals across the enterprise.

The team works on an in-house custom application covering AI, data, infrastructure, and application development.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain secure, scalable software applications that perform well.
• Work with cross-functional teams to design, build, troubleshoot, and improve software solutions.
• Make sure solutions meet standards for performance, security, usability, and quality.
• Mentor other engineers, improve processes, set development standards, and push secure engineering practices forward.
• Implement multi-model AI capabilities such as reasoning, perception, memory, and tool execution, plus temporal, spatial, geographic, quantitative, and computer vision AI.
• Build named entity recognition, contextual entity extraction and resolution, multi-step retrieval, and structured output generation.
• Parse complex data and streamline ingestion, with deep source citation and traceable analytic outputs.
• Orchestrate vector, graph, and multiple databases.
• Create, schedule, and optimize automated ETL pipelines.
• Enforce attribute based access control (ABAC) at the data layer.
• Track provenance and end to end data lineage.
• Ingest and normalize structured and unstructured data into aligned schemas.
• Work in air gapped, hybrid, and on-premise environments.
• Manage container orchestration and distributed systems with Kubernetes, including locally hosted GPU servers and hyperconverged nodes.
• Support multitenant CrossDomain Solutions (CDS).
• Engineer UI, backend, and middleware using TypeScript, React, Python, FastAPI, LanceDB, lance graph, PostgreSQL, Temporal.io, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Integrate reasoning components, retrieval systems, databases, and AI and GenAI services.

Requirements

• Have 8+ years of proficiency in one or more modern programming languages, such as Java, C, Python, JavaScript, or similar.
• Have experience with SDLC methodologies and Agile development.
• Have experience with version control, automated testing, and CI/CD processes.
• Understand application security, system integration, and software quality principles.
• Communicate and collaborate well with others.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and solve problems effectively.
• Preferred: experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Preferred: knowledge of DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automation frameworks.
• Preferred: experience with containerization such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Preferred: familiarity with enterprise application architectures and microservices.
• Preferred: experience in government, defense, intelligence, or highly regulated environments.
• Preferred: certifications in software development, cloud technologies, Agile, or DevSecOps.

Conditions

The base pay range for this role in the listed states is $100,200 to $203,400 USD, shown as required by local law for California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia.

Actual pay depends on factors such as office location, role, skill set, and experience level.

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis, with no fixed deadline.

The company provides equal opportunity to all applicants.

Benefits

• The company offers a broad range of benefits, with more details available from the company.