Software Engineer 3 - Linux/Python/Docker/Kubernetes/LLM/CI/CD/Grafana
Captivation Software7 days ago
Annapolis Junction, MD, USASenior
Base Salary
$130k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy, and support software solutions in high-performance computing Linux environments.
- Build, test, deploy, and sustain containerized applications in production.
- Create and manage Kubernetes resources and author and deploy Helm charts.
- Develop LLM, RAG, embedding-model, vector-database, and Generative SI solutions.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and apply automated testing, security scanning, code-quality analysis, and DevSecOps practices.
- Use observability, metrics, logging, and monitoring solutions to support mission-critical systems.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline plus five years of applicable software engineering experience, bachelor’s degree plus seven years, or nine years of applicable software engineering experience.
- Current Top Secret/SCI U.S. Government security clearance with a favorable polygraph and U.S. citizenship.
- Advanced Linux command-line experience and recent hands-on Python software development experience.
- Experience with Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Helm, and production containerized applications.
- Experience with Git-based workflows, CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI/CD, Flux CD, or GitLab Runners, and observability tools including Prometheus and Grafana.
- Working knowledge of LLMs, RAG architectures, embedding models, and vector databases.
- Preferred experience includes AWS, Confluence, Jira, GPU-enabled applications, PyTorch, TensorFlow, KubeFlow, NeMo, PyTorch Lightning, SQL, Elasticsearch, Nvidia NIM/TRITON, vLLM, and Ray.
Benefits
- Annual salary of $130,000-$270,000.
- Up to 20% 401(k) contribution with no matching required and vesting from day one.
- Above-market hourly rates.
- $3,600 HSA contribution.
- Six weeks of paid time off.
- Company-paid medical, dental, vision, life, short-term and long-term disability, and AD&D insurance.
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About Captivation Software
Captivation Software builds custom full-stack web, cloud, and mobile applications and provides DevSecOps consulting for U.S. government and intelligence programs. The privately held company earns revenue through engineering services and prime/subcontract work, delivering analytics, big data, and AI software to mission-focused agencies. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Hanover, Maryland, it focuses on projects for the Intelligence Community and defense customers in the Mid-Atlantic.