Job Description

The Software Engineer designs, develops, tests, deploys, documents, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems based upon documented requirements. These systems might include, but are not limited to, processing­intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real-time systems, business management information systems, and systems which incorporate data repositories, data transport services, and application and systems development and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements
• Debug existing software and correct defects
• Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features
• Write or review software and system documentation
• Integrate existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments
• Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories
• Develop software solutions by analyzing system performance standards and conferring with users or system engineers; analyzing systems flow, data usage and work processes; and investigating problem areas
• Modify existing software to adapt to new hardware or to improve its performance
• Design, develop, and modify software systems using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design decisions
• Perform quality control on team products
• Recommend and implement suggestions for improving documentation and software development process standards
• Oversee one or more software development teams and ensure the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project
• Confer with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements, and interfaces
• Coordinate software installation on a system and monitor performance to ensure operational specifications are met
• Recommend new technologies and processes for complex software projects
• Serve as the technical lead of multiple software development teams
• Select the software development process in coordination with the customer and system engineering
• Ensure quality control of all developed and modified software
• Delegate programming and testing responsibilities to one or more teams and monitor their performance

Requirements

• TS/SCI with agency appropriate poly
• Master’s degree in computer science or related discipline plus five (5) years of experience as a SWE, or Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline plus seven (7) years of experience as a SWE, or Nine (9) years of experience as a SWE
• Experience with Linux system administration, CLI, and shell scripting
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, PodMan, and containerd
• Experience deploying containerized services under Kubernetes or Docker Compose orchestration
• Recent software development experience using Python, Golang
• Familiar with RAG pipelines, LLMs, and embedding models
• Experience with CI/CD principles, methodologies, and tools including GitLab CI
• Experience using metrics and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience using Git Source Control System

Benefits

• No benefits