Senior Software Engineer (TS/SCI required)

Leidos hiring for Senior Software Engineer (TS/SCI required) jobs in Washington, DC, US

Description

Leidos has a current opening for a TS/SCI cleared Senior Software Engineer supporting our client’s overall mission to centralize and standardize Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (TCPED) of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) across the DoD and IC enterprise.

Job Description

Are you ready to join the Leidos all-star team? Through training, teamwork, and exposure to challenging technical work, let Leidos accelerate your career path.

Have impact as part of a mission focused, solutions oriented, and adaptive team that values innovation, collaboration, and professional development. Your job will be to design, implement, maintain, and monitor data pipelines, both in support of R&D prototypes and production pipelines. You succeed through effective cross functional collaboration in areas such as, but not limited to, development, product, and QA in a dynamic and fast paced environment. While most work is conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and, some unclassified development tasks may be performed remotely. Percentage of remote work will vary based on client requirements/deliverables.

As a senior member of the team, you bring deep expertise in software engineering, data engineering and will work closely with other infrastructure and network engineers, data scientists, and system engineers on the following key tasks:

• Developing, designing, testing, and maintaining software that is primarily FOSS dependent with a heavy emphasis on Python programming.

• Writing robust and efficient code that Integrates with backend database technologies such as Elasticsearch (NoSQL) and PostgreSQL/MariaDB (RDBMS) utilizing modern techniques in CRUD abstraction such as RESTful APIs and GraphQL.

• Design, develop, and maintain python-based HTTP services that incorporate aspects of scalable systems such as asynchronous programming, load balancing, concurrency, authentication/authorization, and fault tolerance.

• Deploying software in an AWS cloud with technologies like EC2, Amazon Aurora, Lambda (FaaS) and Kubernetes.

• Collaborate with stakeholders and other software professionals to create high-quality solutions.

You demonstrate clear devotion to the software engineering best practices and meet the following minimum required qualifications :

• Bachelor’s Degree and 12-15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 - 13 years of prior relevant experience. Additional years of experience will be considered in lieu of degree.

• Must possess TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph.

• Experience designing, developing, and maintain software primarily written in the Python coding language.

• Experience with RDBMS based backends such as PostgreSQL and MariaDB.

• Experience writing web-based REST services that utilize the HTTP protocol.

• Experience designing and maintaining ETL and ELT pipelines with technologies such as Spark, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, Argocd, Metaflow, Kubeflow, etc.

• Experience with DevOps / MLOps, using CI/CD methodology with data pipelines, and cloud-native deployment paradigms.

• Experience with database design, implementation, maintenance, monitoring, performance tuning, and optimization.

• Expertise in data profiling techniques and understanding the content from both a data quality and business perspective.

• Experience with data quality and accuracy evaluation techniques.

• Experience with Agile practices.

You will wow us even more if you have some of these skills:

• An active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.

• Experience supporting data teams and data scientists.

• Experience on a production/enterprise system.

• Experience in air-gapped environments.

• Application development and deployment in an AWS environment.

• AWS and/or Elasticsearch certifications.

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.