Backend Software Engineer - Agent Foundation
Northrop Grumman3 days ago
Remote, United States or New York, NY, USASenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$104k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend services and APIs for agent registration, configuration, versioning, and administration.
- Design database schemas, migrations, and reliable data-access systems.
- Implement authentication, authorization, input validation, and auditable administrative actions.
- Develop background jobs, queues, and event processing with retries and failure recovery.
- Integrate services with LangSmith, model gateways, and enterprise APIs.
- Write automated tests and use logs, metrics, and traces to diagnose production issues.
- Review code, document APIs, and support software releases and maintenance.
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, data science, or a related STEM discipline with at least 5 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree with at least 3 years of relevant experience.
- For Level 4 consideration, a bachelor's degree with at least 8 years of relevant experience or a master's degree with at least 6 years of relevant experience.
- Production backend software development experience using Python, TypeScript, Java, C#, Go, or comparable languages.
- Experience with APIs, SQL, relational databases, schema migrations, queues, caches, scheduled jobs, or asynchronous processing.
- Understanding of service authentication, authorization, and protection of sensitive data.
- Experience with Git, automated testing, debugging, and collaborative software delivery.
- Experience supporting systems in secure government environments, including access controls, security requirements, and controlled change processes.
- Ability to obtain and maintain any required security clearance; U.S. citizenship may be required based on the final clearance determination.
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker.
- Preferred experience with FastAPI, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Azure, automated deployment pipelines, LangSmith or other AI application tooling, versioned APIs, reusable developer capabilities, CI/CD pipelines, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and Model Context Protocol servers.
Benefits
- Health insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off.
- The role is preferably based in Falls Church, Virginia, with virtual telecommuter work considered.
- No relocation assistance is available.
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonuses in addition to base salary.
About Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman designs and manufactures aircraft, spacecraft, missile defense, C4ISR, and cyber systems for the U.S. government, NASA, and allied nations. The company operates primarily through long-term defense and space contracts, delivering products and services spanning autonomous systems, sensors, software, and sustainment. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, it is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: NOC).