Modernization Software Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton1 month ago
Base Salary
$87k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze legacy system complexity and interpret sparse or outdated documentation.
- Develop, debug, test, and modernize software using Rust and C/C++.
- Perform system-level programming and work with memory management, modularity, and design patterns.
- Deploy advanced development tools and integrate modernized software solutions.
- Work with clients daily to deliver targeted enhancements.
- Use containerization technologies and development tooling in Linux and Windows environments.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience with Rust and C/C++, including debugging, testing, and system-level programming.
- Experience with lower-level programming concepts including memory management, modularity, and design patterns.
- Experience with Docker, Podman, or Kubernetes and CI/CD tooling.
- Experience with Linux, Git, SSH, CLI tooling, and networking fundamentals.
- Ability to work in Linux and Windows environments and interpret sparse or outdated documentation.
- Secret clearance and eligibility for access to classified information.
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Preferred: Python experience for tooling, scripting, and test automation.
- Preferred: experience modernizing legacy software systems or working with Navy submarine or surface combat systems, including AN/BYG-1, SWFTS, or TI/APB.
- Preferred: experience with Kafka, NATS, gRPC, Redpanda, Prometheus, or Grafana.
- Preferred: knowledge of real-time acoustic, sonar, or signal-processing systems and emerging developer tooling such as local LLMs, vector databases, or AI-forward workflow automation.
Benefits
- Onsite work in Manassas, Virginia; the posting states that remote work is not available.
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards program.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible for Booz Allen benefit programs, with select offerings available below that threshold.
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About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).