Junior Software Engineer
Belay Technologies16 days ago
Fort Meade, MD, USAEntry Level
Base Salary
$70k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Deploy and maintain AWS and Kubernetes cloud infrastructure supporting AI capabilities.
- Build and maintain deployment pipelines and infrastructure-as-code for reliable, repeatable releases.
- Configure observability tooling to monitor production service health and performance.
- Support certificate management and established security practices for AI systems and data.
- Provision and configure infrastructure for other teams’ services.
- Diagnose and help resolve production infrastructure issues.
- Collaborate across teams and continue learning new technologies as mission needs evolve.
Requirements
- TS/SCI clearance with polygraph and three years of experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or four additional years of experience in place of the degree.
- Proficiency with Python or another modern programming language.
- Familiarity with AWS or another cloud service provider.
- Understanding of containerization concepts and tools such as Docker.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly, communicate effectively, and ask questions.
- Preferred experience includes AWS EKS, Terraform, IAM, Kubernetes, Helm/Kustomize, Argo CD, CI/CD frameworks, Elastic Stack, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus, certificate management, cloud-native architecture, production infrastructure, and LLM hosting concepts.
Benefits
- Eight weeks of paid leave, including personal leave, Yay! days, a birthday day off, paid holidays, and optional volunteer leave.
- 10% matching 401(k) contributions vested on day one.
- $5,000 annual training and tuition benefit and a student loan repayment program.
- Company-funded HSA and medical coverage with 100% coinsurance.
- Dental coverage including orthodontia.
- Company-funded life insurance coverage up to $420,000.
- Amazon Prime, gym reimbursement, monthly lunches, games, prizes, pet adoption support, referral bonuses, and company events.
- Flexible work-life balance and career development opportunities.
About Belay Technologies
BELAY provides managed, U.S.-based virtual staffing for small and midsize organizations, including executive assistants, bookkeeping, and marketing support. Clients engage fractional, remote professionals through a subscription-like, managed-service model with personalized matching and flexible scope. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the privately held company focuses on operational support that frees leaders from scheduling, inbox, financial reporting, and other administrative workloads.