Principal Software Engineer

What will you do?

• Analyze user, system, and mission requirements to derive software design, interface, and performance requirements.
• Design, develop, modify, test, integrate, and maintain complex mission-critical software systems.
• Develop high-quality software primarily using Python and related programming languages and frameworks.
• Design and implement distributed services and system interfaces using Protocol Buffers and gRPC.
• Debug existing software, identify root causes, and correct defects across complex applications and services.
• Create and maintain scalable, reliable, and highly available mission systems using modern software architecture and system design principles.
• Build, deploy, configure, and maintain containerized applications using Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker-based technologies.
• Create and maintain Helm charts, Kubernetes resources, deployment configurations, and supporting infrastructure.
• Develop and execute test procedures for individual software components, services, interfaces, and integrated systems.
• Develop automation scripts and tools to improve software development, testing, integration, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Support automated GitLab continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines.
• Use scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict, measure, and evaluate software and system performance.
• Collaborate with systems engineers and hardware engineers to define software requirements, system interfaces, performance expectations, capabilities, and project limitations.
• Integrate software with databases, messaging platforms, search technologies, configuration services, and external interfaces.
• Troubleshoot application, container, deployment, network, database, and system integration issues.
• Review existing engineering practices and recommend improvements to software documentation, development processes, testing standards, coding practices, and deployment procedures.
• Create and maintain technical documentation throughout the software development life cycle.
• Participate in software architecture, design reviews, integration, verification, validation, deployment, and sustainment activities.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to software engineers as needed.

Requirements

• US Citizen with TS/SCI with Poly required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 20 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Advanced software development experience using Python.
• Strong experience developing distributed applications and services using Protocol Buffers and gRPC.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Experience developing, configuring, and maintaining Helm charts.
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable, highly available, and mission-critical software systems.
• Experience debugging, testing, integrating, deploying, and supporting complex software applications.
• Experience developing automation scripts and improving engineering workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to translate user and system requirements into software design and performance requirements.
• Experience collaborating with software, systems, and hardware engineering teams.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
• Experience with several of the following technologies is strongly desired: Java, RESTful APIs and web services, GNU Autotools, Docker and Docker Buildx, Automated GitLab CI/CD pipelines, MongoDB, etcd, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Distributed systems and microservices, Container-based build and deployment processes, Automated software testing and system integration.