Location: Fort Meade, MD
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Arrangement: Onsite, 5 days per week
Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship required
Compensation: $195,000–$230,000, depending on experience
Position Overview
We are seeking a talented and driven Cloud Software Engineer III to support the development, enhancement, and maintenance of complex, mission-focused software systems. This role will contribute to applications involving high-performance analytics, advanced algorithm development, large-scale data processing, real-time computing, and enterprise business solutions.
The ideal candidate brings strong software engineering experience, a background in cloud and distributed computing technologies, and the ability to develop scalable solutions for large operational data environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide cloud software research, development, and engineering support across requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, sustainment, testing, validation, and issue resolution.
- Design, implement, and test new capabilities for Apache Accumulo to support large-scale content and metadata repositories.
- Conduct Apache Accumulo training sessions, including hands-on configuration and programming exercises.
- Develop web-based user interfaces for searching and presenting operational data.
- Develop web services and REST-based APIs for content and metadata repositories.
- Design and implement algorithms that operate on large volumes of operational metadata.
- Apply advanced parallel programming techniques to analytics running against petabyte-scale datasets.
- Develop, test, and prepare mission-relevant analytics for deployment in secure content and metadata repositories.
Required Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph.
- Ability and willingness to work onsite five days per week.
- Within the last 10 years, at least 7 years of combined programming experience using Java, C++, or Python.
- Within the last 7 years, at least 5 years of experience designing and developing applications in Windows or UNIX/Linux environments.
- Within the last 3 years, at least 1 year of experience with database technologies such as:
- Apache Accumulo
- MongoDB
- ScyllaDB
- Google Cloud Bigtable
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Azure Cosmos DB
- PostgreSQL
- or equivalent technologies
- Within the last 3 years, at least 1 year of experience with distributed batch or stream processing technologies such as:
- Ray
- Apache Spark
- Apache Flink
- Apache Beam
- Databricks
- cloud-native data processing services
- Within the last 3 years, at least 1 year of experience with distributed file or object storage systems such as:
- HDFS
- Amazon S3
- Azure Data Lake Storage
- Google Cloud Storage
- Within the last 3 years, at least 1 year of experience with requirements analysis and design for object-oriented systems.
- Within the last 2 years, at least 6 months of development experience using Kubernetes, AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
Education substitutions may include:
- Associate’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline plus 2 years of programming experience, or
- 5 years of programming experience in lieu of a bachelor’s degree.
Desired Skills
- Experience with Claude Sonnet 4.
- Ability to write code using dynamic prompts with the OpenAI Chat Completions API.
Technical Environment
- Java
- C++
- Python
- Apache Accumulo
- MongoDB
- ScyllaDB
- PostgreSQL
- DynamoDB
- Cosmos DB
- Google Cloud Bigtable
- Apache Spark
- Apache Flink
- Apache Beam
- Ray
- Databricks
- HDFS
- Amazon S3
- Azure Data Lake Storage
- Google Cloud Storage
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- REST APIs
- Large-scale data processing
- Parallel computing
Benefits
Benefits & Total Compensation
Compensation & Retirement
- Highly competitive base salary
- Performance-based bonus opportunities
- 401(k) and Roth retirement plans with up to 10% profit-sharing contribution
Paid Time Off & Leave
- 25 days of paid time off annually
- PTO buy-back program
- 11 paid holidays annually (with flexible scheduling options)
- 3 additional paid site closure days per year
- Paid bereavement leave
- Paid parental leave:
- 8 weeks childbirth leave for birthing parent
- 4 weeks bonding leave for all parents (birth or adoption)
Health & Insurance
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and eligible dependents
- Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (medical, dependent care, limited purpose)
- Company-paid basic life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
Education & Professional Development
- Unlimited company-funded training courses and industry conferences
- Education assistance and continuing education support
- Up to 5 paid training days per year
Additional Benefits
- Company-provided apparel
- Regular company-sponsored events, including family-friendly gatherings and social events
- Annual holiday celebration
Benefits are subject to change based on contract and organizational policies.
Why Join Us?
This is an opportunity to work on highly complex software engineering challenges involving cloud technologies, distributed systems, large-scale data processing, advanced analytics, and secure mission environments. You’ll contribute to impactful engineering efforts while working with modern technologies and solving technical problems at significant scale.