Software Developer (Linux)

Nightwing

23d•Hybrid

About The Position

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets. Work at the forefront of cybersecurity research and development, delivering capabilities to protect national security. Our projects cover the spectrum of security technologies, hardware architectures, and operating systems; if it runs code, we’re interested in its security. We see the impact we have on our nation’s security each day. We refuse any work that isn’t engaging, we ensure our engineers have the tools they need to excel and we recognize superb results. We’re seeking a candidate to develop software for our commercial product team—securing systems at the lowest levels. Potential candidates should be talented, motivated, and forward-thinking individuals who enjoy systems-level security engineering. This position is a Hybrid position in Huntsville, AL.

Requirements

Experience with C/C++ development
Experience with Bash scripting
Knowledge of OS internals (Linux)
System and application debugging experience
Source version control systems (git)
Experience delivering software products to commercial and/or government customers
Working with build systems (Make, CMake, etc.)
Qualified applicants may be subject to a security investigation and must meet minimum qualifications for access to classified information.
U.S. Citizenship is required.
Qualified applicants must meet the requirements to obtain and maintain a Secret government security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Perl scripting
Building/configuring Linux kernels, Redhat systems, Yocto, etc.
Linux Kernel/Driver development
TPM and Secure Boot technologies
Security Concepts
DOD System Security Engineering and standards (RMF, Cyber Resiliency, Anti-Tamper, etc. )
Reading and interacting with assembly (x86_64, ARM, etc.)
Familiarity with internals of other Operating Systems (especially Windows or real-time operating systems (RTOS))
Virtualization concepts and technologies (QEMU, KVM, VMWare, VirtualBox, etc.)
Container and container management concepts and technologies (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, etc.)
Cryptography and the implementation of cryptographic algorithms
Concurrency and parallelism concepts
Our ideal candidate is someone with great technical and problem-solving skills, a motivated personality, and a high degree of creativity!