3 days ago
Base Salary
$176k - $282k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of differentiated, technically credible, and executable solutions for a complex federal government program.
- Serve as a senior technical and strategic advisor to delivery leadership, executive stakeholders, and senior government customers.
- Translate customer requirements into solutions designed to perform against evaluation criteria and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Develop modern software architectures using extensible interfaces, integrations, cloud-native services, distributed systems, and service-oriented patterns.
- Integrate AI/ML capabilities, including customer-use-case applications, into development and solution lifecycles.
- Support software requirements analysis, development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and troubleshooting.
- Lead or contribute to automation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated testing, deployment, security compliance, and continuous monitoring.
- Provide technical writing, facilitation, presentations, and relationship-building with customers and internal leadership.
Requirements
- Active Secret security clearance is required.
- Minimum education and experience: 16 years with a BS/BA, 14 years with an MS/MA, or 10 years with a Ph.D.
- At least 10 years of directly related software engineering experience is required.
- At least three years of software integration and software testing experience, including developing and implementing test plans and test scripts, is required.
- At least four years of software development experience using modern languages relevant to cloud-native services, such as Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript, is required.
- Experience with Scrum or SAFe Agile development methodologies is required.
- Experience developing modern information management applications with complex workflows, intuitive interfaces, and highly concurrent operation is required.
- Proficiency with REST, JSON, HTTPS APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, and frameworks such as FastAPI, React, and Tailwind is required.
- Strong executive presence, written communication, presentation, facilitation, relationship-building, and technical writing skills are required.
- Preferred qualifications include US Navy and NAVAIR experience, fault-tolerant distributed systems experience, LLM/agentic AI/RAG applications, AI-assisted coding, Kubernetes, AWS or Azure cloud architecture, RMF, Zero Trust, and at least three years of UNIX/Linux software development with Python or Bash scripting.
Benefits
- Remote work is available.
- The stated target base salary range is $176,000-$282,000; employees may also be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus.
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About Peraton
Peraton builds and integrates mission systems, cyber, space, and intelligence solutions for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil agencies. It delivers enterprise IT, satellite and terrestrial communications, and spectrum management under government contracts. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Reston, Virginia and is privately held by Veritas Capital.