Job Requirements
Herndon, VA
Top Secret/SCI Polygraph not specified
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
$150,000 - $120,000
Job Description
Required Skills & Experience
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong backend development skills
• Strong proficiency in Python
• 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
• Current/active TS/SCI with a current CI polygraph or be willing and able to obtain a CI polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, e.g. Computer Science, Systems Engineering or equivalent experience
• 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
• DoD 8570 IAT II and Privileged User Access requirements met (Security+, CySA+, CCNA Security, GICSP, GSEC, SSCP)
Job Description
• 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
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong backend development skills
• Strong proficiency in Python
• 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
• Current/active TS/SCI with a current CI polygraph or be willing and able to obtain a CI polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, e.g. Computer Science, Systems Engineering or equivalent experience
• 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
• DoD 8570 IAT II and Privileged User Access requirements met (Security+, CySA+, CCNA Security, GICSP, GSEC, SSCP)
Job Description
• 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
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