Lead Software Engineer

STR • Woburn, MA

2h • Onsite

About The Position

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will leverage your skills in systems and software development to operationalize advanced statistical machine learning algorithms and support production-level systems. You will work closely with other software engineers and researchers to design cutting-edge solutions to challenging problems impacting national security including classification, anomaly detection, forecasting, and much more. You will also interact with customers to understand requirements and use cases and apply feedback to respond to their most critical problems. Positions are available in both Woburn, MA and Arlington, VA. Due to the nature of our work, applicants should expect to primarily work onsite.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret security clearance, for which U.S. citizenship is needed by U.S. Government
• Motivated collaborator looking to work with a large and distributed team
• Ability to lead and direct development initiatives from inception to prototype and production
• BS, MS, or PhD in a related field or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience in one or more high level programming languages, like Python
• Experience with AWS cloud services, SQL, and a variety of databases
• Experience working with large datasets, building and optimizing pipelines and architectures
• Experience in navigating and contributing to complex, large code bases

Nice To Haves

• Possession of Security+ or other certifications
• Experience developing processes for data transformation and workload management
• Experience with development of REST APIs, access control, and auditing
• Experience with DevOps pipelines
• Experience using the following software/tools: Big Data tools: e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, ElasticSearch
• Data Lakes: e.g. Delta Lake, Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg
• Distributed Data Warehouse Frontends: e.g. Apache Hive, Presto
• Data pipeline and workflow management tools: e.g Luigi, Airflow
• Dashboard frontends: e.g. Grafana, Kibana
• Stream-processing systems: e.g. Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to create and maintain software for data pipelines, algorithms, storage, and access
• Build infrastructure for extraction, transformation, and loading using SQL and AWS technologies
• Architect and implement capabilities for integrating technologies and orchestrating workflows
• Build analytic tools that utilize data pipelines to provide actionable insights into customer requests
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements
• Monitor data for changes that could significantly impact system performance
• Develop and execute plans to mitigate issues, maximize uptime, and ensure system performance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees