The Role
As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll architect, develop, and maintain secure software solutions while providing support and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
Join ClearEdge and be a part of a dynamic team that solves some of the DoD’s most complex technical challenges. Every day, ClearEdge empowers our customers in government and industry with innovative, data-driven solutions.
Check out our extremely competitive benefits package at www.clearedgeit.com/careers/, which includes a $10k annual training/education benefit, 10% 401k contribution fully vested on day one, annual health and technology allowance, and access to a state-of-the-art technology lab. We also offer monthly TechConnect and DeepDive collaboration sessions with our entire technical staff.
Your Mission
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, developing, and maintaining secure software and repository solutions across various network domains. You will work directly with customers, managers, and technical staff to understand business needs and develop technical plans that deliver mission-critical solutions. Your expertise will drive the coding, planning, testing, and deployment of software solutions while ensuring integration across different systems, libraries, and applications. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement and fine-tune solutions, while providing tiered support to customers and development teams.
You Will Excel If You Are:
- A strategic thinker who can architect and maintain complex software systems
- Experienced in delivering software solutions in cloud environments (e.g., AWS)
- Proficient with software optimization and performance improvements
- A problem solver who can troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues
- Comfortable with a variety of programming languages and technologies
- An effective communicator and team collaborator
- Committed to sharing software engineering best practices and knowledge
A Day In The Life Of:
- Collaborating with customers, managers, and technical teams to gather business requirements and develop technical plans
- Architecting, developing, and maintaining secure software and repository solutions
- Connecting coding elements, libraries, and applications to ensure successful software releases across different operating systems and infrastructures
- Coordinating with multi-functional teams to formulate, implement, and fine-tune software solutions
- Providing multi-tiered support to customers and software development teams
- Sharing best practices in software engineering and establishing strong, collaborative relationships with government customers and peers
Must Have:
- TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance
- Bachelor’s or Advanced Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline
- 20 years of experience architecting, developing, and maintaining software solutions, with an emphasis on performance optimizations
- Proven experience with architecting, developing, deploying, and maintaining complex software systems in cloud environments (e.g., AWS)
- Experience with provisioning, virtualization, and containerization orchestration
- Demonstrated success troubleshooting and solving complex problems
- Comfortable developing and maintaining software using various languages
- Expertise in software engineering subject matter and customer support across diverse users
- Familiarity with artifact management tools (e.g., Nexus, Artifactory)
- Strong Linux scripting skills, Python experience preferred
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases
- Basic understanding of cross-domain solutions
- Strong monitoring and metrics skills
- Up-to-date understanding of the open-source landscape
Nice to Have:
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- Ability to effectively multi-task
About us:
We are an experienced advanced analytic development company providing Cyber solutions to current and emerging missions.
Our Core Values of Honesty, Integrity, Loyalty, Fairness, Respect, Responsibility, and Accountability drive our mission and vision and are the heart of what we do each day. We combine our Core Values with the three key elements of people, technology, and integrity to repeatedly deliver stellar results within our primary competencies.
ClearEdge is also pleased to share that we have recently expanded our prime and subcontract presence into new cyber markets!
If this position does not fit your skillset, please visit our Careers page to explore our current openings, or contact a ClearEdge recruiter at [email protected]. ClearEdge is an equal opportunity employer.
Top Skills
Artifactory
AWS
Linux
Nexus
Python
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The Company
What We Do
ClearEdge is a mission-driven technology thought leader grown out of the Intelligence Community that provides software engineering, big data, cloud, data analytics, data visualization, and data science solutions and services. As a small business, we are personally committed to responding to our customers' requirements by attracting and retaining only top-tier engineers and field experts.
