Overview
KBR’s National Security Solutions team delivers advanced engineering and technology capabilities to customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this role, your contributions will influence the nation’s security by supporting the most critical functions and ensuring robust protection of national interests.
Why Join Us
- Innovative Projects: You will contribute to cutting-edge efforts that support the Department of the Air Force’s mission-critical operations. The team advances open source development, DevSecOps with state-of-the-art CI/CD pipelines, containerization, Kubernetes, Terraform, Zarf, API management, and database design. You will help build a modeling and simulation SaaS platform that enables dynamic compute power, tool access, and collaboration to drive military research and development forward.
- Collaborative Environment: You will work alongside software engineers, DevSecOps architects, product leads, mission experts, and defense specialists in a dynamic, mission-driven setting. We employ Agile methodologies and secure development practices to enable rapid iteration, compliance alignment, and seamless integration across modular systems. The culture emphasizes clarity, precision, and innovation, promoting open communication and deep collaboration to deliver compliant and impactful software and documentation across the DoD.
- Impactful Work: Your efforts will directly support the Department of the Air Force in advancing defense technology, shaping how compute power, modeling and simulation tools, and data sharing are provided across organizations within the Air Force and broader DoD.
Position Summary
KBR is looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer who is highly interested in storage architecture, distributed storage systems, and cloud-native data platforms to support the development and sustainment of the GEMSTONE platform. The role includes designing, deploying, and managing storage solutions that support modeling and simulation applications, digital engineering environments, warfighter AI and ML workloads, user data, and platform services across cloud and on-premises deployments. The successful candidate will collaborate with platform engineers and DevSecOps teams to implement scalable, secure, and resilient storage services within Kubernetes-based environments or alongside them, helping to shape GEMSTONE's long-term storage architecture for both classified and unclassified deployments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement software solutions supporting platform storage and data persistence services.
- Develop backend services that manage datasets, digital artifacts, metadata, user content, and workflow outputs.
- Support design and operation of distributed storage solutions for Kubernetes-based and on-premises environments.
- Assist with design and implementation of hybrid cloud-native and on-premises storage architectures within Kubernetes environments.
- Build and maintain web applications that enable users to discover, manage, publish, and access data assets.
- Support development of APIs for data access, artifact publication, metadata management, and storage lifecycle operations.
- Support persistent storage capabilities for interactive developer and engineering environments.
- Develop automation for backup, replication, migration, archiving, and recovery workflows.
- Collaborate with platform engineers to integrate storage services with identity, authorization, auditing, and monitoring solutions.
- Participate in architecture reviews, Agile development activities, code reviews, and testing efforts.
- Support deployment and validation through CI/CD pipelines.
- Contribute to technical documentation and operational procedures.
Location
Beavercreek, OH 45431
Work Environment
- Location: Onsite or Hybrid in the Dayton, OH area
- Travel Requirements: None
- Working Hours: Standard
Qualifications
Qualifications (Required)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline
- Ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance
- Ability to learn complex software ecosystems and quickly become proficient in new platforms and technologies
- Experience with distributed storage platforms such as Ceph, Longhorn, OpenEBS, Portworx, GlusterFS, or equivalent
- Experience deploying or supporting applications within Kubernetes environments
- Experience with on-premises storage infrastructure and storage management
- Strong understanding of Linux file systems (ext4, XFS, Btrfs, ZFS), POSIX, and VFS
- Familiarity with cloud-native storage technologies including Persistent Volumes, Persistent Volume Claims, Storage Classes, and CSI drivers
- 1–5 years of professional software development experience
- Experience developing backend services using one or more modern programming languages: GoLang, Python, Java, or C#
- Experience developing web applications using React, TypeScript, or JavaScript
- Experience working with relational or non-relational databases
- Understanding of software engineering principles and data management concepts
- Familiarity with Linux development environments
Qualifications (Desired)
- Experience with RDBMS such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MSSQL
- Experience with non-RDBMS such as MongoDB, Redis, or Elastic/OpenSearch
- Experience supporting data-intensive workloads such as distributed AI/ML, digital engineering, or modeling and simulation applications
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, Helm, ArgoCD, or Kubernetes platform operations
- Experience supporting classified, air-gapped, or secure computing environments
- Familiarity with S3-compatible object storage technologies
- Understanding of metadata management and data cataloging concepts
- Familiarity with API-driven data access patterns
- Exposure to infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices
Benefits
KBR offers a competitive benefits package designed to support your well-being and career growth. Eligible programs typically include a 401(k) plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending accounts, disability coverage, paid time off, and flexible work arrangements. The company also supports career advancement through professional training and development.
Equal Opportunity
KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
Ready to Make a Difference
If you are excited about making a meaningful impact in defense technology and working on projects that matter, we invite you to apply and join the KBR team. Help shape the future with us.
