Software Engineer (TS/SCI with Poly Required)

Key Responsibilities

• Work with a team to write new cloud-based applications and tools and recommend new technologies and methodologies to improve system performance and usability.
• Design, develop, test, debug, and deploy new software tools that extend or replace existing capabilities to parse raw data for analysis.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, analysts, project managers and other engineers and technical SMEs.
• Deploy new software into an AWS-based data ingest pipeline.
• Write software that interacts with multiple data types and stores data into S3 buckets that is queried by processes running Athena or OpenSearch.
• As an OpenSearch expert, drive the design of indexing strategies, query optimizations, and maintain overall architectural ownership of the OpenSearch data layer.
• Troubleshoot complex problems and provide support to mission areas for software systems and application issues.
• Maintain good documentation for new software written and new procedures to be followed.
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Work alongside other engineers on the team to sustain and advance our organization’s capabilities.

Requirements

• Demonstrated hands-on experience with Python, Git, and unit testing frameworks.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with building APIs and services using REST.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with AWS CDK 1 and/or 2 or Terraform.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience applying object-oriented design principles and patterns to architect scalable, maintainable, and testable software systems in production environments.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience designing and developing applications using core AWS services, including EC2, S3, IAM, and VPC.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or other related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, training, and work/military experience.
• US Citizen with an active/current TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.