Forward Deployed Reliability Engineer
M9 Solutions1 day ago
Washington, DC, USASenior
Base Salary
$220k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Keep mission-critical data workflows running for a U.S. Government customer.
- Participate in assigned on-call weeks and respond to critical outages before they affect users.
- Perform root-cause analysis and document reusable fixes.
- Turn lessons learned into scripts, automation, and product improvements.
- Own problems end to end, prioritize competing issues, and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Active Secret security clearance.
- Background in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or another technical field.
- Proficiency in Python, Java, and SQL.
- Familiarity with parallel data processing and optimizing Spark jobs.
- Experience with root-cause analysis and documenting fixes for reuse.
- Availability to respond to critical outages during assigned on-call weeks.
- Preferred: experience optimizing large-scale distributed PySpark builds or distributed compute with Polars or Pandas.
- Preferred: experience debugging legacy code written by others.
- Preferred: Java or C++ software development experience, plus TypeScript and data-platform experience.
- Ability to work independently, own problems end to end, and prioritize competing issues.
Benefits
- Hybrid role supporting a client in Washington, DC.
- Full-time employee position.
- Benefits package is provided by M9 Solutions.
- Salary range is stated as $220,000–$230,000 USD.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About M9 Solutions
M9 Solutions provides IT services and staffing for U.S. federal agencies, including software development, cloud migration, cybersecurity, data delivery and analytics, and applications and infrastructure support. The privately held firm, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, delivers cleared talent and project-based solutions and has supported more than 30 federal agencies, plus some commercial customers.