Senior Software Engineer
Tyto Athene, LLC1 day ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$150k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, maintain, and operate full-stack application capabilities using Python and Go.
- Develop backend services, APIs, integrations, automation, and supporting tools using Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, and related technologies.
- Build product capabilities across network automation and mission platform applications, including backend services and user-facing features.
- Build AI agent systems with tool use, external-service calls, multi-step reasoning, and structured and unstructured data processing.
- Integrate agents with tools and data sources using the Model Context Protocol and comparable agent-tool standards.
- Design modern front-end applications and generative user interfaces that dynamically construct components and layouts based on user intent.
- Integrate cloud services, network automation tools, monitoring solutions, and third-party systems through REST APIs and structured data.
- Develop capabilities that ingest, process, and correlate operational and telemetry data and automate platform workflows.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployments, release processes, and Infrastructure-as-Code-enabled operations.
- Build and deploy containerized, cloud-native applications while collaborating on scalability, reliability, observability, and performance.
- Use AI-assisted development tools for coding, debugging, refactoring, testing, documentation, and code analysis, validating generated output for quality and security.
- Troubleshoot application, integration, deployment, and production issues and implement sustainable solutions.
- Participate in architecture, design discussions, code reviews, testing, documentation, release management, deployment, and continuous improvement.
- Apply secure software development practices and collaborate with security and compliance staff to implement requirements.
Requirements
- Professional experience designing, developing, and supporting production software applications.
- Strong professional Python development experience with Django, FastAPI, or a comparable modern framework.
- Programming experience with Go and familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript or other modern application-development languages.
- Experience designing, developing, and consuming RESTful APIs and integrating external systems and services.
- Experience with relational databases, data modeling, backend architecture, and modern front-end web development.
- Experience building AI-agent or agentic-workflow systems involving tool use, multi-step orchestration, and large language models.
- Experience with modern front-end development, including exposure to generative or AI-driven user interfaces.
- Hands-on cloud experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and understanding of deployment, configuration, security, monitoring, and production operations.
- Experience in CI/CD and DevOps-based software delivery, including automated builds, testing, deployments, version control, and releases.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Experience with Docker, containers, and cloud-native application deployment; Kubernetes or managed container platform experience is highly desirable.
- Professional use of AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot.
- Ability to independently troubleshoot complex software, integration, deployment, and production issues.
- Ability to work through ambiguity, propose trade-offs, iterate with incomplete requirements, and communicate across engineering, product, cloud, and platform teams.
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field is desired.
- Desired qualifications include MCP or comparable agent-tool integration experience; LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, or comparable orchestration frameworks; network operations, telemetry, or mission-system experience; AWS or GCP cloud-native services; Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, or CloudFormation; React or similar frameworks; vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation; observability platforms; NIST RMF, NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5, FedRAMP, and FISMA knowledge; and federal, enterprise, regulated-environment, or defense-program experience.
- US citizenship is required, with the ability to obtain a security clearance; DOD/DoW Secret or Top Secret clearance is preferred.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) match.
- Paid time off.
- Short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
- Referral bonuses.
- Professional development reimbursement.
- Parental leave.
- Remote work in the US or hybrid-remote work in Reston, Virginia, which is preferred.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureDatadogDjangoDockerFastAPIGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptKubernetesPythonReactSplunkTerraformTypeScript
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About Tyto Athene, LLC
Tyto Athene, LLC provides IT services and systems integration for U.S. defense and national security customers, delivering network modernization, unified communications, hybrid cloud, cybersecurity, and enterprise IT. The privately held company, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, designs, deploys, and manages mission-critical infrastructure including command centers, mobility, wireless, and physical security systems. Its work is primarily delivered under government contracts for design-build projects, managed services, and lifecycle support across CONUS and OCONUS locations.