Principal Software Engineer - Workload Communications Domain Lead

What you'll do

• Assess communication technologies and workload needs; use benchmarks and load tests to establish and update recommendations.
• Create reference implementations, shared libraries, architecture guidance, and practices for reliable, performant messaging and RPC.
• Mentor engineers, support cross-team adoption, and report engineering outcomes to leadership.

What they ask for

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of professional experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting production software systems, including significant distributed communication systems experience.
• Production experience with message brokers or event streaming platforms, and experience with RPC or low-level messaging frameworks.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.

Nice to have

• Experience with technology standardization or internal platform guidance across teams; high-throughput or low-latency data pipelines and performance tuning.
• Experience with distributed tracing, containerized or Kubernetes messaging systems, mission data workflows, or an active DoD Secret clearance or higher.

Pay

USD 164,000 - USD 218,000 / year (base salary)

Tools

Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, MQTT, gRPC, ZeroMQ, Protocol Buffers, OpenTelemetry