Software Engineer III

Job Number: 372 Job Category: GovTech Job Title: SOFTWARE ENGINEER III (372) - MARYLAND - URGENT Job Type: Full-time Clearance Level: Top Secret/SCI - Full Scope Polygraph Work Arrangement: On-site Job Location: Fort Meade MD Salary: 266K Background Respond to software shortcomings reported by users of existing applications. Watch people use your tool, notice what could be better, and fix it without them asking
Gather requirements and rapidly develop new prototype tools/solutions that help customers do their jobs more efficiently
Start with vague requirements, identify and iterate with SMEs to build something special
Understand the CNMF mission, collaborate with team members, gather user requirements, and automate workflows
Identify opportunities to leverage existing DAT and AIMASSIST capabilities for our new customer, successfully communicate with and integrate with those teams to apply them to this new mission. Implement features effectively across multiple code bases
Establish customer rapport, communication cadence, means of prioritization, and effectively capture and make visible your impact on the mission
Hone an effective, easy-to-use LLM and RAG experience that will be used by your immediate CNMF customer and many, many others Requirements Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline from an accredited college or university is required
12 years' experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required
4 years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor's degree
Knowledge of modern middleware frameworks (comfort using something along the lines of Express, Flask, Spring, FastAPI, etc.)
Comfort with basic computer administration including software installation, system configuration, and networking. Comfort with git and automated build pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, etc.) Preferred Passion for observability (Elastic, APM, Grafana, etc.)
Experience integrating software with a Large Language Model (LLM)
Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
Production-grade software development experience with Python
Service containerization and deployment with Docker and Kubernetes or Swarm
Experience building prototypes and understanding the value of frequent iterations and user feedback
Previous experience working with CNO, USCC, CNMF, or some form of cybersecurity-related past
Experience with any of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Grafana, Redis, Kafka, Nginx, AWS, HAProxy
Experience integrating open-source models and technologies
Excellent Jira hygiene