Software Engineer 3
About The Position
At Wyetech, youâll be at the center of an award-winning corporate culture, breaking technological barriers and solving real-world problems for our federal government customers. We are committed to hiring the best of the best, and in return, we offer a world-class, truly unique employee experience that is rare within our industry. A senior engineer who can design, implement, and improve distributed application orchestration logic, mentor peers, and contribute to the architectural direction of the system. Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required. (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with agency appropriate polygraph).
Requirements
- TS/SCI with agency appropriate poly
- Twenty (20) years experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
- Bachelorâs degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
- Four (4) years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelorâs degree
- Deep experience with Go or Python in cloud-native contexts
- Strong Kubernetes experience: CRDs, Helm, GitOps, multi-tenant app deployments
- Experience with event-driven or agent-based systems (e.g., Kafka, controller patterns)
- Familiar with infrastructure automation (Terraform, cloud-init, Ansible)
- Comfortable balancing automation and operator oversight in complex environments
Responsibilities
- Design scalable workflows for deploying and managing Kubernetes-native applications
- Lead the development of reusable Helm charts, GitOps templates, and deployment strategies
- Build system-aware controllers or agents that automate app lifecycle tasks
- Contribute to platform-wide architecture decisions (e.g., deployment strategy, multi-cluster config, observability)
- Mentor junior engineers and review code for reliability, clarity, and best practices
- Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to ensure secure and compliant deployments
- Owns end-to-end delivery of system components
- Helps shape internal standards and shared tooling
- Guides team through design decisions and tradeoffs
- Thinks in systems, not just services
Benefits
- Wyetech believes in generously supporting employees as they prepare for retirement. The company automatically contributes 20% of each employee's gross compensation to a Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) IRA, with no requirement for employee matching. All contributions are fully vested from day one, ensuring immediate ownership of retirement funds.
- Wyetech provides a generous PTO plan of up to 200 hours annually, aligned with applicable state leave regulations. Employees have the flexibility to adjust their PTO allocation at the start of each calendar year, ensuring it meets their evolving needs.
- Full-time employees have the option to participate in a variety of voluntary benefit plans including: A Choice of Medical Plan Options, some with Health Savings Account (HSA) Vision and Dental Life and AD&D Benefits Short and Long-Term Disability Hospital Indemnity, Accident, and Critical Illness Insurances Optional Identity Theft and Legal Protection Services
- Employee Referral Bonus Eligibility up to $10,000
- Mobility Among Wyetech-supported Contracts
- Various contract and work locations throughout Maryland, Virginia, Colorado, Texas, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii and OCONUS
- Various team-building events throughout the year such as: monthly lunches, summer company picnic, and an annual holiday party.
- Employees receive two complementary branded clothing orders annually.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
