Cyber Platforms Software Engineer, Senior

About the role

We build software for large, fast-changing cyber problems where speed, scale, and complexity demand better tools. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll work across production systems used by operators, analysts, and cyber experts today, while also helping develop new capabilities from early technical concept to deployed product.

On our team, you’ll move across the stack through back-end services, data systems, user-facing tools, automation, containers, and cloud infrastructure. You’ll bring judgment to ambiguous problems, make practical technical tradeoffs, and work close to users to understand where software holds up or breaks down in real-world use.

Responsibilities

Build software that helps operators make sense of fragmented, high-volume cyber data.

Make complex cyber workflows more reliable, observable, and repeatable at enterprise scale.

Take new cyber capabilities from early technical concept to prototype and deployed product.

Apply AI, analytics, and decision-support techniques to reduce analyst burden and improve operator decision-making.

Develop orchestration and human-in-the-loop systems that help cyber teams coordinate, prioritize, and act.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience building, shipping, and supporting production software through software engineering in a professional environment
• 3+ years of experience building back-end services, APIs, data workflows, or platform components with Python
• 2+ years of experience working with Docker or Kubernetes, containers, and reproducible development or deployment workflows
• 2+ years of experience building, deploying, or operating software on cloud platforms such as AWS
• 2+ years of experience designing or operating production systems that use databases, APIs, queues, caches, background jobs, or distributed-system patterns
• 2+ years of experience owning technical delivery for a feature, service, product area, or engineering workstream
• Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Computer Engineering, or Information Systems

Nice to Have

• 2+ years of experience building front-end applications with React, TypeScript, or modern front-end frameworks
• Experience building software for cyber operations, cyber defense, threat detection, security operations, or related environments
• Experience working with cyber ranges, digital twins, adversary simulation, vulnerability research, reverse engineering, or detection engineering
• Experience with operational data such as logs, telemetry, network data, endpoint data, or security events
• Experience building AI-enabled, agentic, or LLM-based applications that were deployed to users or integrated into production systems
• Experience supporting defense, intelligence, national security, R&D, or other mission-focused customers
• Master’s degree in a CS, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Data Science, AI, or technical field

Benefits

Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.

Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values.

Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs.

Pay

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements.

The projected compensation range for this position is $86,900.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD).