Software Engineer (Level 2 or 3) - AHT
$91,800–$137,600 year
On-siteRedondo Beach, California, United States
Job Summary
Design, implement, and integrate containerized software components for a space mission planning system within an agile development environment. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate mission planning requirements into robust solutions, integrating services with Kafka-based backend data streams while ensuring reliability and scalability. Implement and maintain cloud-deployed services, including monitoring, logging, and alerting, while participating in code reviews, test automation, and continuous improvement of development practices. Troubleshoot and resolve issues across application, container, and cloud layers, maintaining a strong focus on software quality through unit and integration testing. Work onsite in Redondo Beach, CA, with 10% travel required.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline
- Master's degree in a STEM discipline
- Ph.D. in a STEM discipline
- 2+ years of software engineering experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- 3+ years of stated experience
- 1+ years of stated experience
- Ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret clearance
- Ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a DoD SCI clearance
- Strong programming skills in at least one of: Java, Python, or C++
- Ability to read and debug other languages
- Prior work experience integrating applications with Apache Kafka or other distributed messaging/streaming platforms
- Experience building RESTful APIs and/or microservices that integrate with backend data sources
- Proficiency with Linux environments and shell scripting
- Experience with build tools (e.g., Maven/Gradle for Java, CMake for C++, or equivalent)
- Familiarity with source control and branching strategies (Git, Git workflows)
- U.S. Citizenship
Desired Qualifications
- Master's degree in a STEM discipline with 0+ years of experience
- Ability to read and debug other languages
- Active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance
- Experience with mission-critical or real-time systems, ideally in space mission planning domains
- Experience designing event-driven architectures using Kafka (schema design, message contracts, error handling, replay patterns, stream processing)
- Background in microservices architecture and patterns (service discovery, configuration management, circuit breakers, API gateways)
- Knowledge of software design patterns and modern architectural practices
- Experience working in multi-disciplinary engineering teams supporting large system integrations
- Experience developing clean, secure code (e.g., Sonar scans, unit tests, code coverage, Fortify)
- Hands-on experience designing and developing containerized applications (e.g., Docker) for deployment to a private cloud environment
- Experience with container orchestration platforms (preferably Kubernetes, OpenShift, or similar)
- Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts, including scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, and observability
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