Staff Engineer
Raft Company Website1 day ago
Arlington, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$110k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, develop, and implement end-to-end cluster and application lifecycles.
- Architect, develop, and implement Kubernetes and Docker solutions in cloud and on-premises environments with clients.
- Develop and implement CI/CD pipelines.
- Implement GitOps for software delivery.
- Support monitoring, logging, infrastructure as code, deployment, release automation, and orchestration for production platforms.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of relevant industry experience.
- At least 3 years of experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including provisioning production clusters and maintaining compliance.
- Experience building and managing data-intensive platforms with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Pinot, or Flink.
- Experience with data management technologies including ETL processing, data governance, and data storage.
- Experience with AWS or other cloud computing solutions.
- Experience with building, deployment, release automation, or orchestration.
- Experience with Kubernetes monitoring and logging solutions such as Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentbit, Kibana, or Loki.
- Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Ansible.
- Experience configuring CI/CD pipelines using GitLab Runners.
- Ability to obtain Security+ certification within the first 90 days of employment.
- Active Secret or Top Secret clearance preferred, with the ability to obtain and maintain TS clearance.
- Preferred experience with Helm Charts, Maven, Gradle, NPM, Yarn, Istio, enterprise cloud applications or infrastructure, Python, or GoLang.
Benefits
- Hybrid work in Arlington, VA; Rome, NY; Hanscom, MA; or Tacoma, WA, with remote, hybrid, and flexible work options.
- May require up to 25% travel.
- Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Take-as-needed PTO and 11 paid holidays.
- Education and training benefits.
- Annual budget for technology and gadgets.
- Monthly snack box, team off-sites, and referral bonuses.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache FlinkApache KafkaAWSDockerGoGradleGrafanaIstioJavaKibanaKubernetesMavennpmPrometheusPythonScalaTerraformYarn
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About Raft Company Website
Raft is a defense technology company that builds AI/ML, autonomous data fusion, and cloud-native software platforms for U.S. military and government agencies. It develops distributed data systems, DevSecOps/GitOps platforms, and applications to operate at scale in secure environments. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, the privately held firm is backed by Washington Harbour Partners, which invested $60M in private equity funding in 2024.