Senior Software Engineer
About the role
Belay Technologies is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our intel team. The role involves building the next generation of AI infrastructure that powers innovation across the customer organization.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and optimize infrastructure for AI model inference at scale
- Lead the development and maintenance of production AI services and applications, including retrieval augmented generation (RAG), autonomous agents, and emerging technologies
- Serve as technical lead for AI infrastructure initiatives, coordinating work across integrated teams
- Conduct regular one-on-ones and provide coaching, feedback, and support for assigned team members
- Act as the team point of contact (POC) for contract administration functions
- Navigate ambiguity and define solutions for complex, underspecified systems and requirements
- Establish new technical policies, standards, and governance frameworks where gaps exist
- Drive adoption of new technologies and practices across engineering teams
- Implement and oversee monitoring, logging, and observability solutions for AI services
- Ensure high availability, reliability, performance, and security of AI platform components
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders at multiple organizational levels
Qualifications
- TS/SCI Clearance with polygraph
- 12 years of experience, or a B.S. in a technical discipline plus 4 additional years of experience
Candidates should have the following skills
- Extensive experience designing, building, and operating large-scale production systems
- Deep expertise in systems integration across diverse technologies and platforms
- Hands-on experience with cloud engineering in AWS
- Advanced proficiency with Kubernetes administration and deployment patterns
- Strong Python programming skills
- Experience implementing and scaling observability solutions (APM, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus)
- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and influence organizational change
- Experience developing technical policies and governance frameworks
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills
- Ability to balance hands-on engineering with leadership and coordination responsibilities
Candidates are desired to have the following skills
- Experience with AI inference serving technologies (vLLM, LiteLLM, etc.)
- Previous experience with agentic frameworks (LangChain)
- Knowledge of vector databases and embedding systems
- Experience with high-performance computing or distributed systems
- Track record of successfully driving technical and cultural change
Perks and Benefits
- 8 weeks paid leave - 4 weeks of personal leave, 3 Yay! days, take off on your birthday, 11 paid holidays and optional leave through Belay's volunteer program
- 10% matching in 401(k) contributions vested on day one
- $5,000 annual training/tuition
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- 100% company-funded HSA
- Rich medical coverage (100% coinsurance)
- Dental coverage including orthodontia
- Up to $420,000 in life insurance, premiums 100% company funded
- Amazon Prime, gym reimbursement, monthly lunches, games and prizes
- Pet adoption program, generous referral bonus program, fun events, and more!
Pay
Salary Range: $190,000 to $240,000
Belay Technologies
Belay Technologies is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business located in Columbia, Maryland (Baltimore/Washington area). Belay Technologies specializes in systems automation and full stack development. Belay Technologies provides leading technology and engineering solutions to the DoD, as well as state-of-the-art commercial products. We hire software engineers, web designers, test engineers, systems engineers, systems administrators, database engineers and other tech services. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Application
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