
Senior Software Engineer, Analytic Services Lead
Parsons Corporation1 day ago
Reston, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$177k - $332k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the analytics services portfolio covering search, aggregations, event rollups, telemetry analytics, and user-facing visualization.
- Lead the design and delivery of Java-based analytics services and supporting ingestion, indexing, and reporting workflows.
- Define indexing, sharding, retention, and query strategies for operational telemetry and business analytics workloads.
- Tune queries and service interactions to meet strict performance and latency requirements in real-time mission workflows.
- Ensure analytics services are scalable, observable, and reliable across globally distributed deployments.
- Troubleshoot ingestion, indexing, query performance, user interface, and distributed-system issues.
Requirements
- Active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or four additional years of experience in lieu of the degree.
- 15+ years of software, data platform, search, or analytics engineering experience, including 4+ years owning a major technical service domain.
- Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana or Grafana, and Java-based services.
- Experience owning analytics or search architecture across indexing, query design, aggregation patterns, and user interface visualization.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across ingestion, indexing, query performance, UI layers, and distributed systems.
- Experience with Vue.js 3 or similar frameworks, distributed analytics or observability solutions, telemetry pipelines, distributed tracing, APM-driven analysis, Elasticsearch cluster optimization, or event pipelines and stream processors is desired.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid time off, holidays, life insurance, and flexible work schedules.
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan and 401(k).
- Employee wellbeing support and growth opportunities.
About Parsons Corporation
Parsons Corporation is a public engineering and technology firm that designs, builds, and secures critical infrastructure and national security systems for government and commercial clients. It earns revenue through contracts for engineering, construction management, program management, and cyber and intelligence solutions across transportation, water, space, and defense domains. Founded in 1944 and headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, it trades on the NYSE and serves U.S. government and international infrastructure owners.