Top Secret/SCI with Active Full Scope Polygraph – must be active prior to start
Pay: $90-100/hour. W2 only.
Duration:5 years
100% Onsite near Washington, DC
Employment Type: Full-Time Immediate
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to support a mission-critical program within the Intelligence Community. This is an on-site SCIF position requiring a TS/SCI clearance with an active Full Scope Polygraph prior to consideration.
The SWE Level 3 is a senior engineer capable of designing, implementing, and improving distributed application orchestration logic across a Kubernetes-native platform in a classified environment. This role carries architectural authority and mentorship responsibility: the successful candidate will lead the development of reusable Helm charts, GitOps templates, and deployment strategies; contribute to platform-wide architecture decisions; and guide junior engineers through design decisions and tradeoffs.
Qualifications:
Top Secret/SCI with Active Full Scope Polygraph – must be active prior to start
Bachelor's degree preferred, equivalent experience may be substituted.
8+ years of software engineering experience, with majority in cloud-native, Kubernetes-based, or distributed systems contexts.
Required Qualifications:
• Active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph - must be active prior to start
• Deep experience coding in Go and/or Python in cloud-native contexts
• Strong Kubernetes expertise: CRDs, Helm, GitOps, multi-tenant deployments
• Experience with event-driven or agent-based systems (Kafka, controller patterns)
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible)
• Demonstrated end-to-end system component delivery ownership
• Proven mentorship and technical leadership capability
• Comfortable balancing automation with operator oversight in classified environments
Desired Skills
• TypeScript for frontend or tooling development
• OpenShift or Rancher Government Solutions in air-gapped deployments
• Service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
• Observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
• AWS GovCloud, C2S/SC2S classified cloud experience
• Cross-domain solution (CDS) experience
• DoD 8140 IASAE Level II or III (CASP+, CISSP)
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