Secret Clearance- Software Engineer

Herndon, VA (onsite) hiring for a Senior Software Engineer who can serve as a technical lead on mission-critical software products. You’ll own engineering outcomes end-to-end, from requirements and architecture through deployment and sustainment, in distributed, cyber-aware environments. This role requires an active Secret clearance and experience leading complex systems built with Java and/or C++.

What you’ll get

• Opportunity to drive mission-critical software from concept through sustainment
• Work on enterprise-scale communications and networking software in secure, demanding environments
• Modern engineering workflows, including AI-assisted tools to accelerate design, coding, testing, and debugging
• Hands-on impact across CI/CD, containerization, and secure cloud or hybrid-cloud deployments

What you’ll work on

• Enterprise-scale software products supporting critical communications and networking
• System modernization and refactoring of existing capabilities
• New feature development across distributed and multi-threaded applications
• Cloud and hybrid-cloud deployments for demanding environments
• Containerized services and orchestration at scale
• APIs and integration points across databases and subsystems
• DevSecOps practices, CI/CD, and automated testing practices
• Resilient, cyber-aware software for DoD and telecom-style domains

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across the engineering team
• Take ownership of software products from concept through sustainment
• Design and evolve software architectures and system designs
• Drive development across the full software lifecycle
• Mentor junior engineers and help elevate engineering standards
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate design, coding, testing, and debugging
• Implement and maintain RESTful services and back-end components
• Develop multi-threaded applications in Java and/or C++
• Design and integrate with relational or distributed databases
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins-based workflows
• Develop, package, and deploy containerized applications
• Support Kubernetes, cloud, and hybrid-cloud deployments in secure environments

Requirements

• Active Secret clearance
• Experience across the full software development lifecycle
• Proven technical leadership and an ownership mindset
• Strong software architecture and system design skills
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies
• Strong Java and/or C++ development experience
• Experience with Java Spring Boot and REST API development
• Linux development environment experience and multi-threaded application experience

Technologies you’ll use

• Java, C++, Spring Boot, REST APIs
• Linux
• Jenkins, CI/CD
• Docker, containerized services, orchestration
• Kubernetes, Kubernetes administration
• AWS GovCloud, cloud and hybrid-cloud deployments
• DevSecOps, automated testing practices
• Relational databases and distributed databases
• SATCOM, networking, gateway

Minimum experience: 7 years.

IMPORTANT REQUIREMENTS: Active Secret clearance is required.