Senior Principal Software Engineer

Senior Principal Software Engineer
Company Overview

CCG is a technology company focused on equipping customers with the capabilities and support to conduct intelligent and successful cyber operations. We do this by finding the most talented engineers and operators in the country, give them some of the most challenging problems facing the US government, and help them unleash their creativity and problem-solving skills. Excellence is our standard and mission success is our metric.

Role

We are building a platform to support cyber development activities and eventual coordination and orchestration of cyber missions. This project will be focused on prototyping solutions that will be aligned with the long term vision of governments ideal architecture.  Specifically, you will:

• Lead the system architecture design and concepts for the system
• Lead technical discussions and design meetings
• Engage with the customer and external partners to understand the goals and approach
• Explore and understand existing capabilities, tools, and libraries that can be leveraged to achieve the end-state
• Decompose complex problems into straightforward and actionable solutions
• Generate and maintain a backlog of high level features
• Demonstrate thought leadership and strategy in partnership with delivery and product partners;
• Lead Architecture Review Boards, and other product, platform, and architecture discussions;
• Present work products and strategies to customer leadership and other stakeholders
• Establish technical standards and guidelines for a large team of developers.

Though primary responsibility for making priority decisions, architecture plans, and ensuring proper team execution is yours, you will not operate on an island. You will have the support of our CTO, a team of tech leads, other engineers, and an engaged customer. You will also be encouraged to explore the technology space enough to understand the unique technical components involved.

Finally, you are expected to be the Subject Matter Expert for customer demos and discussions. As such, you will want to know the ins and outs of the full product being developed. You must have the ability to participate in highside discussions and access highside IT when required. This can be accessed via our secure office space in Herndon, VA. Any tasks not requiring an onsite presence can be done remotely; this is a hybrid opportunity.

Required Qualifications

• BS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline
• 10+ years of experience designing and developing systems and/or software solutions
• Must possess a current active TOP SECRET security clearance, and be able to obtain SCI status
• Experience leading a team of at least 10+ other engineers
• Ability to engage with customers and external partners to create priorities from broad requirements
• Quick learner, and hunger for understanding technologies and solutions
• Experience developing solutions with mature CI/CD processes including: IaC, peer reviews, automated integration testing, fully automated deployments, update and migration strategies
• Experience managing cloud and on-premise infrastructure, application deployment, and security methodology
• Ability to excel in a dynamic environment while maintaining focus on delivering excellent customer service
• Experience with Kubernetes and popular tools under the CNCF umbrella
• Demonstrate depth of understanding with at least one cloud provider (i.e. AWS/Azure/GCP)

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with CNO or adjacent concepts

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status