Forward Deployed Reliability Engineer

M9 Solutions•Washington, DC
•$220,000 - $230,000•Hybrid

About The Position

M9 Solutions is seeking a Forward Deployed Reliability Engineer for a hybrid role supporting a government contract for a client located in Washington, DC. An active Secret clearance is required. The role keeps mission-critical data workflows running for a U.S. Government customer, responds to critical outages during assigned on-call weeks, and turns lessons learned into scripts, automation, and product improvements.

Requirements

  • Active Secret security clearance.
  • Background in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or another technical field.
  • Proficiency in Python, Java, and SQL.
  • Familiarity with parallel data processing and optimizing Spark jobs.
  • Experience conducting root-cause analysis and documenting fixes for reuse.
  • Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical people.
  • Availability to respond to critical outages during assigned on-call weeks.

Nice To Haves

  • Experience optimizing large-scale distributed PySpark builds, or distributed compute with Polars or Pandas.
  • Experience debugging older code written by others.
  • Ability to own problems end to end with little oversight and prioritize competing issues.
  • Java or C++ software development experience.
  • TypeScript and data-platform experience.

Responsibilities

  • Keep mission-critical data workflows running for a U.S. Government customer.
  • Take on-call weeks and respond to critical outages, resolving issues before they reach users.
  • Turn lessons learned into scripts, automation, and product improvements.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package.
  • M9 Benefits are referenced at https://m9solutions.com/why-join-m9/#our-benefits.
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