Senior Software Engineer

About the role

Join ClearEdge and be part of a mission-focused team solving some of the DoD’s most complex technical challenges. Every day, ClearEdge supports government and industry customers by delivering innovative solutions that enable critical operations and mission success.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of a customer-specific implementation within the platform's architecture baseline
• Remain a primary implementor while directing a small team (2-6 engineers)
• Make account-specific technical trade-off decisions, coordinating with technical leadership on platform-level questions
• Gather requirements, prioritize delivery work, and communicate status to customer-facing stakeholders and internal leadership
• Guide engineers through review, conventions, and pairing
• Own releases end-to-end, including delivery into hybrid and air-gapped environments

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance; U.S. citizenship
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or similar (4 years of experience may substitute)
• 10+ years of experience in the design, development, and deployment of software systems
• Fluency with AI-native IDEs
• Strong version control habits
• Understanding of hybrid deployment (on-prem and cloud), including air-gapped deployment
• Practical experience with containers
• Skilled in at least two mainstream programming languages — language is secondary; expect to ship quickly in TypeScript, Python, and React, using tech like Postgres, RAG, and vector stores
• Familiarity with production cross-cutting concerns: identity/SSO/OAuth/OIDC, MFA, RBAC, session management, audit logging, encryption, object + relational storage, APIs, CI/CD, and observability
• Experienced across all phases of the software development lifecycle
• Experience gathering requirements, prioritizing delivery work, and communicating status to stakeholders
• Spend roughly 90% of time on hands-on implementation while guiding 2-6 engineers via review, conventions, and pairing; owns releases end-to-end
• Experience providing technical direction and leadership to less experienced staff

Qualifications

• Nice to have: Tech-lead experience on multi-service products, Generative AI / agentic feature delivery experience, Experience supporting RMF/ATO (security control evidence, finding remediation, accreditation documentation), Experience with physical security or facility accreditation practices, such as ICD 705 or similar frameworks, Familiarity with tools used by security and compliance teams

Skills

• Full-stack development — language secondary, though you'll ship quickly in TypeScript, Python, and React
• AI-native IDEs
• Version control habits
• Hybrid deployment (on-prem and cloud), including air-gapped deployment
• Containers
• Two mainstream programming languages — language is secondary; expect to ship quickly in TypeScript, Python, and React, using tech like Postgres, RAG, and vector stores
• Production cross-cutting concerns: identity/SSO/OAuth/OIDC, MFA, RBAC, session management, audit logging, encryption, object + relational storage, APIs, CI/CD, and observability

Benefits

• $10k annual training and education benefit
• 10% 401(k) contribution fully vested on day one
• Annual health and technology allowances
• Access to a state-of-the-art technology lab

Pay

Competitive salary commensurate with experience

Schedule

Flexible schedule to accommodate mission-critical work

ClearEdge is an equal opportunity employer.