812042 Software Engineer $160,000.00

Position Level: Level 4 – Full Performance
Location: Chantilly, VA
Salary: Up to $160,000 per year

About the role

This position requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph. We are seeking a Software Developer to join a 200+ FTE technical development program supporting the Customer's Enterprise PKI System as well as Identity and Access Management (IdAM IICAM), Authentication, Authorization, Attributes, and Digital Policy Management.

The Software Engineer will collaborate with a team of developers, engineers, and testers to support and modernize existing PKI systems, as well as develop new systems for other networks. Core business hours are typically 9 AM – 3 PM, five days a week, with flexibility for early arrivals or late departures. Some after-hours or weekend work may be required to accommodate system deployments and upgrades.

Responsibilities

• Develop new features for legacy PKI systems as the Customer's mission expands and evolves.
• Build new PKI systems for emerging mission needs on other networks.
• Participate in the Scrum agile framework, delivering incremental enhancements on a 3-week cycle.
• Engage in planning deliverables and grooming the Jira backlog.
• Collaborate with the team to fine-tune performance and ensure clear communication.
• Participate in a team rotation for Operations & Maintenance (O&M) responsibilities, including after-hours on-call support approximately one week every three months.
• Work closely with product owners, business analysts, and other teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Analyze and decompose complex software systems, creating designs for scalability, testability, and performance.
• Write custom scripts to install and configure code in EC2 instances.
• Develop APIs to integrate systems and services.
• Collaborate with the team's security engineer to address and mitigate security findings from system security scans.
• Work with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL, using SQL or PL/SQL.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree and 3-5 years of demonstrable experience (Full Performance Level).
• Experience creating applications with Java, Spring Boot, and Amazon Web Services for backend components, focusing on low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems.
• Experience working with product owners, business analysts, and other teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Experience analyzing and decomposing complex software systems and creating designs for scalability, testability, and performance.
• Experience writing custom scripts to install and configure code in EC2 instances.
• Experience using Git and CloudFormation scripts.
• Experience creating RESTful APIs.
• Experience using XML, JSON, and YAML.
• Experience creating applications/services using Java, JavaScript, and bash scripting.
• Hands-on experience with Linux (CLI) and scripting languages like BASH and Python.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL, and use of SQL or PL/SQL.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and key concepts like digital certificates, Certificate Authorities (CAs), Registration Authorities (RAs), key management practices, cryptographic algorithms, certificate revocation procedures, and trust models.
• Experience with Jenkins.
• Experience delivering containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience creating applications/services using Python.
• Experience with Elasticsearch and/or Kibana.
• Experience creating applications that rely on tokenization.
• Understanding of Identity Access Management (IAM) and Zero Trust concepts.
• Experience building microservices.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Katalon Studio or Selenium.

Benefits

• Retirement:
  • Full Vanguard 401k Plan with a full scope of investment options.
  • 100% employer-matched contribution up to 6% of salary.
  • Ability to max out 401k savings ($57k, or $63.5k if over 50).
  • Annual B4Corp phantom stock (2-year vesting period).
• Insurance:
  • Medical: United Health Care (UHC) with multiple plan options.
  • Dental: United Concordia (UC) Flex Plan.
  • Vision: Vision Service Plan Insurance Co (VSP) Signature Plans.
  • Short-term disability: 60% of salary up to $2,000/week (Mutual of Omaha).
  • Long-term disability: 60% of salary up to $10,000/month (Mutual of Omaha).
  • Life insurance: $200,000 (Mutual of Omaha).
• Paid Time Off (PTO):
  • Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays).
  • Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval).
• Additional Benefits:
  • Employee Referral Bonus: $3,000 per year for every year a referred employee works at B4CORP.