Staff Software Engineer, Greyspace
SimSpace Corporation3 hours ago
Base Salary
$185k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead Greyspace architecture and technical decisions, including service boundaries, data ownership, API contracts, and failure behavior.
- Design, build, deploy, and manage distributed services for simulated internet environments.
- Develop realistic DNS, certificate, routing, web, mail, and other network and application behaviors.
- Design reusable services with isolated per-range configuration, credentials, mutable state, and faults.
- Define integration contracts and partner on operator workflows, readiness checks, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management.
- Translate training needs into prioritized use cases, acceptance criteria, estimates, dependencies, and incremental delivery plans.
- Drive automated integration testing, observability, performance testing, recovery procedures, and deployment and upgrade validation.
- Lead design and code reviews, resolve cross-service risks, establish engineering standards, and mentor senior engineers.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience and current Staff or Senior Software Engineer experience building distributed applications, platform services, or networked systems and leading technically complex cross-team work.
- Proven ability to design, build, and ship production-grade distributed services across the full software development lifecycle.
- Strong networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, and TLS, with hands-on troubleshooting across application, service, and network boundaries.
- Experience designing multi-tenant or distributed systems with clear isolation, state-management, API, and failure-recovery boundaries.
- Demonstrated ability to drive technical standards and architectural decisions across multiple teams and make pragmatic delivery trade-offs.
- Strong scoping, estimation, communication, and ambiguity-management skills.
- Proficiency in a modern backend programming language and software engineering practices including API design, service decomposition, automated testing, and code review.
- Hands-on experience with Linux, containers, and Kubernetes, including service deployment and troubleshooting.
- Experience with self-hosted, on-premises, or disconnected environments is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with cyber ranges, simulation, internet service infrastructure, or security-sensitive and compliance-driven environments such as DoD, FedRAMP, or SOC 2 is a plus.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $185,000-$260,000, plus potential annual performance-based bonuses; compensation figures are excluded from benefit details.
- Medical, dental, vision, and savings-plan benefits begin on the first day.
- Company-paid counseling, coaching, and family resources through Spring Health.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
- Unlimited vacation and dedicated health and wellness days.
- Paid parental leave.
- Equity stock options at hire and annual performance-based grants.
- Employee referral rewards of 1,500–3,500 per qualified hire.
- Full or partial Peloton Interactive membership subsidies and equipment discounts.
- LinkedIn Learning membership and other continuous-learning support.
- Monthly reimbursements for social connections with teammates.
- Legal plan coverage, pet insurance, wellness reimbursements, and other perks.
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About SimSpace Corporation
SimSpace builds cyber ranges and a live-fire simulation platform used by governments, militaries, and large enterprises to train cyber teams, validate defenses, and test AI agents. The company sells software and expert services for training, threat emulation, and technology evaluation in replicas of production environments. Founded in 2015 by veterans of U.S. Cyber Command and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, SimSpace is privately held and headquartered in Orlando, Florida.