Staff Software Engineer (TS/SCI)

What you'll do

• Architect, deploy, and maintain cloud and on-premises infrastructure, including support for disconnected and air-gapped environments.
• Build and maintain backend services and frontend interfaces, and improve reliability, CI/CD, observability, documentation, and support processes.
• Ensure security controls, audit readiness, and compliance with government deployment standards; collaborate across teams and mentor peers.

What they ask for

• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a high-level U.S. government security clearance; the posting also specifies active TS/SCI with Full Scope Poly.
• 8+ years in software engineering shipping enterprise cloud software.
• Hands-on coding at scale in Java, Python, or TypeScript, plus REST or gRPC APIs and UI automation.
• Experience with CI/CD, containers, and a major cloud platform; scalable backend architecture, modern web technologies, and web authentication and authorization fundamentals.

Nice to have

• Experience with Federal/DoD compliance frameworks, especially FedRAMP and IL6, and restricted or air-gapped infrastructure.
• Identity governance or IAM experience, or compliance experience such as SOX, SOC 2, or ISO 27001.

Pay

$147,000 — $202,000 USD (annual base salary)

Tools

Java, Python, TypeScript, REST, gRPC, Playwright, Selenium, CircleCI

AI focus

Apply AI meaningfully across the software development lifecycle, evaluate and adopt AI tools, and establish team practices for AI-augmented engineering.