Software Engineer 3

RealmOne was built on the principle that people matter first and foremost. We believe in providing a strong work/life balance by investing in our employees and encouraging professional and personal growth. We do this by offering exceptional benefits, flexible schedules, and the tools necessary to achieve success through paid training, mentoring, and the opportunity to work alongside top-notch industry professionals.
We are searching for talented individuals who provide intelligence, engineering, and mission management expertise for the Government. This program will maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of our country's most important missions both at home and abroad. If you are ready to support a high-performing team that truly makes a difference, then come join us!
Job Description:
The Software Engineer develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems (e.g., processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real-time systems, and business management information systems) based upon documented requirements. Works individually or as part of a team. Reviews and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results. Resolves software problem reports. Utilizes software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment. Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of Commercial Off-the-shelf (COTS)/Government Off-the-shelf (GOTS) in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.
The Level 3 Software Engineer shall possess the following capabilities:

• Design scalable workflows for deploying and managing Kubernetes-native applications.
• Lead the development of reusable Helm charts, GitOps templates, and deployment strategies.
• Build system-aware controllers or agents that automate app lifecycle tasks.
• Contribute to platform-wide architecture decisions (e.g., deployment strategy, multi-cluster config, observability).
• Mentor junior engineers and review code for reliability, clarity, and best practices.
• Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to ensure secure and compliant deployments.
• Deep experience with Go or Python in cloud-native contexts.
• Strong Kubernetes experience: CRDs, Helm, GitOps, multi-tenant app deployments.
• Experience with event-driven or agent-based systems (e.g., Kafka, controller patterns).
• Familiar with infrastructure automation (Terraform, cloud-init, Ansible).
• Comfortable balancing automation and operator oversight in complex environments.
  

Qualifications:

• Twenty (20) years experience as a SWE, in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
• Owns end-to-end delivery of system components.
• Helps shape internal standards and shared tooling.
• Guides team through design decisions and tradeoffs.
• Thinks in systems, not just services.

Position requires active Security Clearance with appropriate Polygraph