Lead Software Engineer
MITRE · Colorado Springs, CO · 1 mo ago
Engineering$157k–$196k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes introductory paragraphs about MITRE, Department Summary, Roles & Responsibilities, Basic Qualifications, Preferred Qualifications, Salary compensation range, Work Location Type (Onsite). Also mention benefits? It says "Benefits information may be found here." Not actual benefits content, so we should not create Benefits section because no specific benefits listed. Pay section: we have salary range, so include Pay section. Schedule: we have "This position requires a minimum of 3 days a week on-site." Also "Annual Work Location Type: Onsite". So schedule info: onsite requirement 3 days a week. So we can include Schedule section.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Use for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Skills? Actually we need to decide which sections to include based on content.
We have:
- About the role: could be the introductory paragraphs (MITRE mission, Department Summary). Use
for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Skills? Actually we need to decide which sections to include based on content.
We have:
- About the role: could be the introductory paragraphs (MITRE mission, Department Summary). Use About the role
then
with that content. - Responsibilities: the "Roles & Responsibilities" section with bullet list. Use
Responsibilities
then- ... each bullet.
- Requirements: Basic Qualifications. Use
Requirements
then list. - Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications. Could beQualifications
orPreferred Qualifications
. The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can use Qualifications for preferred qualifications. Or we could split Requirements (basic) and Qualifications (preferred). Use Requirements for basic, Qualifications for preferred. - Skills: maybe we could extract skills from responsibilities? But we already have responsibilities list; we could also have Skills section summarizing technical skills. However we should avoid thin sections. Might combine skills into Responsibilities or Qualifications. Since we already have Responsibilities and Qualifications, maybe we don't need Skills. - Pay: include salary range. - Schedule: include onsite requirement. We must not include Benefits section because no specific benefits listed. We must discard boilerplate: EEO, legal, accommodation, copyright, etc. We must preserve all substantive information. Let's extract content. Intro paragraphs: "At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future." Department Summary: "Do you want to develop software systems that contribute to solving our nation’s most critical problems? Do you want to work alongside engineers and scientists that are experts in their fields? Are you passionate about best practices for delivering the highest quality software solutions? We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. At MITRE you will leverage your background and experience to make a difference in tangible, impactful problems that face our nation. You’ll work on diverse projects that support our Government sponsors and benefit from numerous learning and growth opportunities. Our workplace reflects our values. We want you to continue to grow your career at MITRE so that you can experience the gratifying work, our competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces flexibility, collaboration, and career growth." We can combine these into About the role. Now Responsibilities bullet list: From "Roles & Responsibilities: MITRE is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to design, build, secure, and operate mission-focused software systems and data platforms. The role emphasizes Python development, AWS cloud-native and distributed architectures, DevSecOps automation, and data engineering/ETL to support analytical and operational use cases. The candidate will deliver features and technical solutions, contribute to system architecture and engineering process improvements, and support both sustained program delivery and fast-turn mission needs. The candidate should be prepared to work across multiple technology areas (cloud infrastructure, software engineering, and data engineering) and to support a mix of standard program work and urgent, high-impact enablement tasks as organizational priorities evolve. Responsibilities may include some or all of:" Then bullet list: - Deliver modern software capabilities, improving architecture, platforms, and developer workflows with strong engineering practices (secure coding, reviews, testing, maintainable design). - Partner with UX, Architecture, Data, Security, and Operations to define technical strategy and influence roadmaps with a customer-centric mindset. - Champion architectural excellence (cloud-native, event-driven, microservices where appropriate) across AWS/Azure, balancing long-term vision with pragmatic execution. - Design and integrate backend services and RESTful APIs, ensuring reliable data flows for mission workflows and downstream consumers. - Build and operate data pipelines (ETL/ELT) for ingestion, transformation, validation, and publishing to analytics and operational APIs (including Airflow orchestration as needed). - Develop and optimize data models, SQL, and database access patterns (PostgreSQL/MongoDB), including migrations and data quality strategies. - Implement containerized deployments with Docker/Kubernetes, including configuration, deployment patterns, and troubleshooting. - Engineer DevSecOps/CI/CD pipelines with security and quality gates and repeatable release processes. - Provision and manage Linux environments using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible) for reproducible dev/test/prod deployments. - Communicate clearly via high-quality design docs/RFCs and runbooks; lead architecture reviews, incident response, post-incident learning, and compliance/observability integration (e.g., Splunk); mentor engineers and raise standards through reviews and design sessions. We need to keep each as - .
Now Basic Qualifications:
"Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience or equivalent combination of related education and work experience. The individual should be able to immediately contribute to this job stepThe applicant will need to be able access and work in classified environments as neededEntrepreneurial and innovative spirit and the curiosity to explore and push the boundaries of software development and software solutionsStrong Python development experience with modern software engineering practicesExperience building distributed systems in AWS or multi-cloud environmentsExperience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)Experience implementing DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelinesExperience designing and integrating RESTful APIs and data pipelinesFamiliarity with databases such as PostgreSQL or MongoDBExperience with Linux environments and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)Experience with modern web technologies (React, JavaScript, HTML/CSS)Ability to work in Agile development environments with strong documentation practicesMust have an active Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.This position requires a minimum of 3 days a week on-site."
Note there are some missing spaces due to OCR; we need to preserve content but can fix spacing? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. We should keep the text as is, but we can add spaces for readability? Might be considered altering. Safer to keep as given but we can insert spaces where missing? The text has concatenated words: "job stepThe applicant" should be "job step. The applicant". Also "access and work" missing space after "as neededEntrepreneurial". We could keep as is but it's awkward. However we must not invent or summarize away detail; adding spaces is not inventing content, just formatting. Probably acceptable. We'll add appropriate punctuation and spaces for readability while preserving meaning.
We'll produce a clean list.
Basic Qualifications bullets:
- Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
- Able to immediately contribute to this job step.
- Able to access and work in classified environments as needed.
- Entrepreneurial and innovative spirit and the curiosity to explore and push the boundaries of software development and software solutions.
- Strong Python development experience with modern software engineering practices.
- Experience building distributed systems in AWS or multi-cloud environments.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience implementing DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs and data pipelines.
- Familiarity with databases such as PostgreSQL or MongoDB.
- Experience with Linux environments and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
- Experience with modern web technologies (React, JavaScript, HTML/CSS).
- Ability to work in Agile development environments with strong documentation practices.
- Must have an active Secret U.S. Government issued Security Clearance.
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret U.S. Government issued Security Clearance.
- Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S. Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
- This position requires a minimum of 3 days a week on-site.
Now Preferred Qualifications:
List:
- Advanced degree in a technical discipline (including but not limited to Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, etc.)
- Experience delivering software in compliance-aligned environments and hardening systems to standards such as NIST 800-171 and/or NIST 800-53, including producing audit-ready evidence
- Experience building and operating AWS data platforms (e.g., Glue, EMR) and implementing automated data quality validation and monitoring
- Experience with workflow orchestration and streaming/event platforms such as Airflow and/or Kafka
- Experience with cloud automation and Infrastructure as Code beyond baseline use (e.g., reusable Terraform modules, AWS CDK patterns, environment promotion strategies)
- Experience with observability platforms such as Splunk, including onboarding data sources, parsing, dashboards, and alerting to support security/compliance and operational readiness
- Experience supporting mission analysis, test and evaluation, operational systems, and/or integration with external mission partners or vendor solutions
- Experience with simulation environments such as AFSIM
- Experience administering or operating production systems (applications, databases, and/or networks), including incident response practices and reliability improvements
- Experience using agentic software development tools and technologies, including Codex / ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf, or other similar models and agent-based tools
Now Pay: "Salary compensation range and midpoint: $156,800 - $196,000 - $235,200". We'll present as Pay section.
Schedule: Already captured in Basic Qualifications (3 days a week on-site) and "Annual Work Location Type: Onsite". We'll include Schedule section with that info.
We should not repeat the onsite requirement twice; we can mention in Schedule.
Now produce HTML:
About the role
... combined intro paragraphs ...
Responsibilities
- ...
Requirements
- ...
Qualifications
- ...
Pay
Salary compensation range: $156,800 - $196,000 - $235,200 (midpoint).
Schedule
Onsite work required; minimum of 3 days per week on-site.
We must not include Benefits section. Check for any other substantive info: "Benefits information may be found here." Not specific, so skip.