6 days ago
Fort Meade, MD, USASenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$192k - $455k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build customer-specific features, extensions, integrations, and full-stack or backend capabilities.
- Work directly with government users and technical staff to understand needs, make pragmatic trade-offs, and deliver maintainable software.
- Build data integrations that retrieve, parse, transform, and load new sources into the platform.
- Extend and field-test AI-backed application capabilities with support from Arlington AI engineers.
- Deploy and update software in a restricted, air-gapped environment in coordination with customer and Arlington engineering teams.
- Monitor platform and data-flow health using Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Mimir, and diagnose and resolve production issues.
- Participate in PagerDuty on-call, root-cause analysis, post-incident reviews, and creation of runbooks and fixes.
- Serve as the engineering liaison between the customer, on-site colleagues, and Arlington product engineering and DevSecOps teams.
- Build core product features during quieter customer periods and turn field observations into reusable platform capabilities.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial ownership of production services or applications.
- Strong generalist programming ability in at least one of Go, Python, or TypeScript.
- Experience delivering backend services or full-stack features through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operation.
- Experience debugging production systems using logs, tracing, and root-cause analysis under time pressure.
- Operational fluency with Linux command line, Docker, Docker Compose, and observability tooling.
- Production experience outside a core specialty, such as data pipelines, integrations, infrastructure, or ML-backed features.
- Experience in forward deployed, field engineering, or embedded customer-facing engineering roles, including software operation in air-gapped, classified, or restricted environments.
- Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, and determine when to decide or escalate.
- Experience with ETL/ELT pipelines, data integrations, SQL, and schema design is preferred.
- Experience with LLM-backed application features, AI/ML systems, observability tools, streaming or messaging technologies, or military, intelligence, or defense contracting is preferred.
- Active TS/SCI security clearance with CI Polygraph is required.
- Must be a U.S. citizen and able to work full-time on-site at a Northern Virginia government facility.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plan options, plus life/AD&D and disability coverage options.
- Paid parental leave, including 12 weeks for birthing parents and leave for non-birthing, adoptive, foster, and intended parents through surrogacy.
- Paid holidays and flexible PTO.
- 401(k) with pre-tax and Roth options, HSA/FSA, and dependent care FSA.
- Full-time, on-site work at a Northern Virginia government facility with travel to the Arlington, Virginia office typically four days per month.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
