Job Requirements
Remote Reston, VA
Top Secret/SCI CI Polygraph
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
$150,000 - $180,000
Job Description
Responsibilities:
Design, build, and maintain backend services and platform components for a modern data architecture
Build integrations with internal and external data sources, APIs, and event streams
Partner with data engineering, analytics, and product managers to define scalable data models and platform capabilities
Improve reliability, observability, and performance of data workflows and backend services
Implement best practices for testing, monitoring, logging, and deployment
Contribute to architecture decisions around storage, orchestration, metadata management, and access patterns
Help establish engineering standards for code quality, documentation, CI/CD, and operational excellence
Troubleshoot and debug production systems
Desired Qualification Qualifications:
Strong proficiency in Python
Strong experience in Angular – Typescript/Java Script
Experience building backend systems, APIs, or distributed services in production environments
PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch proficiency
Familiarity with AWS, especially S3, RDS, and other data centric services
Understanding of software engineering fundamentals including testing, version control, CI/CD, and system design
Tenacious troubleshooting, problem solving and error fixing mentality
Strong communication and collaboration skills, ability to work, collaborate and thrive on a small technical team.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working with data platforms, data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, or large-scale data processing systems
Gitlab and Gitlab CI experience
Openshift and Helm experience
Docker and containerization experience
Design, build, and maintain backend services and platform components for a modern data architecture
Build integrations with internal and external data sources, APIs, and event streams
Partner with data engineering, analytics, and product managers to define scalable data models and platform capabilities
Improve reliability, observability, and performance of data workflows and backend services
Implement best practices for testing, monitoring, logging, and deployment
Contribute to architecture decisions around storage, orchestration, metadata management, and access patterns
Help establish engineering standards for code quality, documentation, CI/CD, and operational excellence
Troubleshoot and debug production systems
Desired Qualification Qualifications:
Strong proficiency in Python
Strong experience in Angular – Typescript/Java Script
Experience building backend systems, APIs, or distributed services in production environments
PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch proficiency
Familiarity with AWS, especially S3, RDS, and other data centric services
Understanding of software engineering fundamentals including testing, version control, CI/CD, and system design
Tenacious troubleshooting, problem solving and error fixing mentality
Strong communication and collaboration skills, ability to work, collaborate and thrive on a small technical team.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working with data platforms, data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, or large-scale data processing systems
Gitlab and Gitlab CI experience
Openshift and Helm experience
Docker and containerization experience
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