Senior Software Engineer
Tyto Athene, LLC18 hours ago
Reston, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$150k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, maintain, and support secure, scalable full-stack application capabilities.
- Develop backend services, REST APIs, integrations, automation, supporting tools, and user-facing application features.
- Build data ingestion, transformation, normalization, correlation, scoring, prioritization, reporting, and visualization capabilities across heterogeneous sources.
- Model relationships and dependencies among assets, systems, and organizational entities for drill-down and risk analysis.
- Implement role-based access control and role-differentiated user views.
- Build software supporting post-quantum cryptography, cryptographic modernization, crypto-agility, risk analysis, and compliance workflows.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security validation, and deployment processes across development, staging, and production.
- Build, deploy, and support containerized and cloud-native applications in collaboration with cloud and DevOps engineers.
- Use and evaluate AI-assisted software development tools for coding, debugging, refactoring, testing, documentation, and code analysis.
- Troubleshoot application, integration, deployment, and production issues and implement sustainable solutions.
- Participate in architecture, design discussions, code reviews, documentation, release management, deployment, and continuous improvement.
- Apply secure software development and DevSecOps practices while translating cybersecurity and compliance requirements into software capabilities.
Requirements
- Demonstrated professional experience designing, developing, and supporting production software applications.
- 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 technologies.
- Experience building data-intensive or data analytics applications involving ingestion, transformation, normalization, correlation, aggregation, analysis, reporting, or visualization.
- Experience modeling and querying hierarchical, relational, or graph-like relationship data.
- Experience in CI/CD and DevOps-based delivery environments, including automated builds, testing, deployments, version control, and releases.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and repeatable automated deployments.
- Experience with Docker, containers, or managed container platforms.
- Professional experience using AI-assisted software development tools such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot.
- Ability to independently troubleshoot software, integration, deployment, and production issues.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to operate in an ambiguous, early-stage product environment and iterate without fully specified requirements.
- Experience with Modular Open Systems Architecture and open-source technology.
- Preferred experience in cybersecurity, cloud security, GRC, compliance, continuous monitoring, post-quantum cryptography, crypto-agility, or cryptographic inventory.
- Preferred experience building entity-resolution, scoring, prioritization, ranking, recommendation, graph, or network-analysis capabilities.
- Preferred experience with Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, advanced AI-assisted workflows, or agentic software engineering.
- Knowledge of NIST RMF, NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5, NIST CSF, FedRAMP, and FISMA requirements is preferred.
- Familiarity with vulnerability management, POA&M management, security controls, evidence collection, continuous monitoring, PKI, certificates, key management, cryptographic algorithms, and protocols is preferred.
- Experience integrating security tools, cloud APIs, vulnerability scanners, SIEM platforms, asset inventory systems, or cybersecurity technologies such as Tychon, Tenable, and ServiceNow is preferred.
- Experience supporting federal government, enterprise, or other highly regulated environments is preferred.
- Software development experience with Python, Django, or Go and familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript or other modern application languages.
- US citizenship with the ability to obtain a security clearance is required; 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 US position with approximately 10% travel as needed.
- Compensation is typically $150,000-$200,000, based on skills, experience, education, certifications, and other factors.
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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.