10 days ago
Chantilly, FranceStaff+
Base Salary
$173k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Deliver modern software capabilities and improve architectures, platforms, developer workflows, and engineering practices.
- Define technical strategy and influence roadmaps in partnership with UX, Architecture, Data, Security, and Operations.
- Design cloud-native, event-driven, and distributed systems across AWS and Azure.
- Build backend services, APIs, data pipelines, data models, and database access patterns.
- Implement Docker/Kubernetes deployments, DevSecOps and release pipelines, Linux environments, and Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Ansible.
- Lead architecture reviews, incident response, post-incident learning, observability and compliance integration, documentation, design sessions, and engineer mentorship.
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree, 8 years with a master’s degree, 5 years with a PhD, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Strong Python development experience and modern software engineering practices.
- Experience with distributed systems in AWS or multi-cloud environments, Docker, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, CI/CD, APIs, data pipelines, PostgreSQL or MongoDB, Linux, Terraform, and Ansible.
- Experience with modern web technologies including React, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS, plus strong documentation practices in Agile environments.
- Active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph U.S. government security clearance and U.S. citizenship eligibility for the clearance.
- Preferred qualifications include an advanced technical degree, NIST-aligned compliance and system hardening, AWS data platforms, Airflow or Kafka, advanced cloud automation, Splunk, mission systems, AFSIM, production operations, and agentic development tools such as Codex, ChatGPT, Cursor, or Windsurf.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits and meaningful career development are offered.
- The position is onsite five days per week.
- The role requires or must obtain a Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph clearance within one year of hire.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache AirflowApache KafkaAWSAzureCSSDockerHTMLJavaScriptKubernetesLinuxMongoDBPostgreSQLPythonReactSplunkSQLTerraform
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About MITRE
MITRE is a nonprofit systems engineering and applied research organization that operates multiple federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies. It builds prototypes, frameworks (such as the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base), and provides technical guidance across defense, cybersecurity, aviation, and healthcare. Founded in 1958 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, MITRE runs FFRDCs for sponsors including the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, and health agencies.