Software Engineer (SWE), Level 3

Bitwise • Columbia, MD

1d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Software Engineer on this team, you'll be at the forefront of designing and advancing a cutting-edge agentic platform — one that powers intelligent, autonomous workflows in complex, high-stakes environments. This isn't maintenance work or incremental feature development. You'll be shaping how AI-driven agents operate, learn, and deliver impact from the ground up. You'll work hands-on with agentic primitives — skills, prompts, and subagents — and integrate diverse data sources and external APIs using MCP tools to enable seamless, scalable system interoperability. Alongside cyber analysts and key stakeholders, you'll translate real operational challenges into technical solutions that matter. If you're energized by production AI systems, stream processing at scale, and the challenge of making autonomous workflows actually work in the real world, this role is for you. This position is located in Columbia, MD.

Requirements

• An active TS//SCI clearance with polygraph is required for this role
• 12 years of software development experience, or 16 years in lieu of a B.S. in a technical discipline
• Strong Python proficiency with hands-on experience building and maintaining production applications that serve hundreds to thousands of users
• Solid understanding of AI development concepts, including prompt engineering, context management, structured outputs, and tool/function calling
• Experience developing resilient, scalable stream processing applications using modern messaging and event-streaming platforms (e.g., Apache Kafka)
• Experience with Elasticsearch for indexing and querying
• Familiarity with agentic frameworks such as PydanticAI, Langgraph, or DeepAgents
• Experience leveraging AI coding assistants for code generation, refactoring, debugging, and automation

Nice To Haves

• Experience with agentic workflows and multi-agent orchestration
• Background in cybersecurity or familiarity with security operations workflows
• Experience managing deployments in AWS Cloud with Kubernetes
• GitLab CI/CD automation
• Experience with retrieval systems, including RAG pipelines, vector databases, and semantic search
• Experience analyzing cybersecurity-related datasets such as network traffic and OS events
• Knowledge of end-to-end SIGINT collection and analysis systems
• Experience with production CNO capabilities and operations

Responsibilities

• Develop agentic integrations in Python that leverage multiple AI models, APIs, and data sources in production environments
• Build tools and agentic workflows within modern frameworks like PydanticAI, Langgraph, and DeepAgents
• Work directly with cyber analysts and key stakeholders to understand operational workflows and identify high-impact automation opportunities
• Design and implement real-time analytics pipelines in Python using Apache Kafka for stream processing and Elasticsearch for indexing and querying
• Maintain and troubleshoot a production-grade agentic platform

Benefits

• Top salaries because we're top performers
• Pick your PTO — Everyone values time and money differently, so we give you the flexibility to choose between 3 and 5 weeks of PTO with a corresponding adjustment to your pay. Your choice, your balance.
• All 11 federal holidays, paid!
• Up to 2 snow days, paid!
• We'll quadruple (4x!) the first 6% you contribute to your 401(k), giving you up to a 24% company match. Contributing less than 6%? Unclaimed matches come right back to you as extra income, giving you a guaranteed 24% that goes to your retirement, to your paycheck, or both. C'mon now!
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurances. That's a lot. Already covered on health insurance? No problem — we'll trade you this benefit for a boost to your salary instead.
• $5,250 annual education assistance for training, certifications, tuition, and even student loan repayments.
• Spot bonuses for obtained certifications, customer recognition, and just about anything else that makes us go "Hot damn!". We hope to say that many times about you.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees