Careers · R-012
Software Development Engineer
Herndon, VA · Full-time · Onsite · TS/SCI with Full-Scope Poly
Herndon, VAFull-time · OnsiteTS/SCI with Full-Scope Poly
Design and build resilient, high-throughput, event-driven software and data processing frameworks for a federal national security customer, with real-time observability and event tracking built in from the start.
What you’ll do
- Build modular, fault-tolerant backend services and event-driven data pipelines
- Integrate asynchronous systems and message brokers for seamless data interchange
- Implement real-time monitoring, logging, and automated alerting for system health and data flow
- Ensure strict access controls, concurrency, and scalable record-keeping across complex platforms
- Design APIs and microservices that scale under high volume
- Collaborate with engineering teams to keep distributed systems reliable
What you bring
- Python with asynchronous and concurrent programming
- Apache Kafka and/or RabbitMQ
- Event-driven design patterns
- Distributed systems and microservices architecture
- Fault tolerance and API design
- ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- Grafana and monitoring/alerting
- Working with JSON and Git
Bonus points
JavaC#PrometheusasyncioFastAPIDockerKubernetesAWSCI/CDReal-time data streamingClassified environment experience
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