Junior Software Engineer

Belay Technologies•Fort Meade, MD

33d•$70,000 - $190,000•Onsite

About The Position

Belay Technologies is seeking a Software Engineer to join our intel team. Join us in building the next generation of AI infrastructure that will power innovation across the customer organization. We're seeking a software engineer to support our Platform team, which owns the AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and security posture that every AI capability in the organization runs on. In this role, you'll help build and maintain the foundation for customer AI capabilities while supporting a broader ecosystem of AI-enabled applications. Your focus will be deploying and maintaining reliable, secure infrastructure that the rest of our AI services depend on. Requirements shift quickly as mission needs evolve and new technologies emerge, so you'll keep sharpening your skills and learning to turn loosely defined problems into working solutions.

Requirements

TS/SCI Clearance with polygraph
3 yrs., B.S. in a technical discipline or 4 additional yrs. in place of B.S.
Proficiency with Python or another modern programming language.
Familiarity with AWS or other cloud service providers.
Understanding of containerization concepts and tooling such as Docker.
Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
Strong communication skills and a willingness to ask questions.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AWS services such as EKS, Terraform, and IAM.
Experience with Kubernetes and Helm/Kustomize.
Experience with Argo CD and/or other CI/CD frameworks.
Experience with the Elastic Stack (Kibana), Grafana/Prometheus, or other observability tools and practices.
Experience with certificate management.
Experience supporting cloud-native architecture or maintaining production software and infrastructure.
Familiarity with LLMs and AI hosting concepts.

Responsibilities

Deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting the organization's AI capabilities (AWS, Kubernetes).
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code for repeatable, reliable deployments.
Configure and use observability tooling to monitor the health and performance of production services.
Support certificate management and follow established security best practices for AI systems and data.
Collaborate with other teams in the organization to provision and configure the infrastructure their services depend on.
Diagnose and help resolve production infrastructure issues.

Benefits

8 weeks paid leave - 4 weeks of personal leave, 3 Yay! days, take off on your birthday,11 paid holidays and optional leave up to 6 days through Belay's volunteer program
10% matching in 401(k) contributions vested on day one
$5,000 annual training/tuition
Student Loan Repayment Program
100% company-funded HSA
Rich medical coverage (100% coinsurance)
Dental coverage including orthodontia
Up to $420,000 in life insurance, premiums 100% company funded
Amazon Prime, gym reimbursement, monthly lunches, games and prizes
Pet adoption program, generous referral bonus program, fun events, and more!