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Leidos

Software Engineer

Leidos, Bethesda, Maryland, us, 20811

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Are you ready to join Leidos all-star team? Through training, teamwork, and exposure to challenging technical work, let Leidos show how to accelerate your career path.

Leidos has an exciting opening for you as our next

TS/SCI cleared Software Engineer

supporting a long-term DIA-NEMC DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) contract. You will work closely with Systems Engineers, Software Engineers, Architects, and Operations Engineering/Manager on a broad scope of activities extending across the development of systems to include middle-tier and backend engineering tasks. Have impact as part of a mission focused, solutions oriented, and adaptive team that values innovation, collaboration, and professional development. While most work is conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and, occasionally, some tasks may be performed remotely. The percentage of remote work will vary based on client requirements/deliverables.

You will work closely with the team on the following key tasks

Develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems ( e.g., processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real-time systems, and business management information systems) based upon documented requirements

Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of COTS/GOTS in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components

Designs, implements, and integrates software applications or performs software engineering tasks

Utilizes software engineering and design methodologies appropriate to the development, integration, and production environment

Participate in test, staging and production deployment.

Assist in the maintenance of services and procedures for a big data pipeline which includes Kafka, Elasticsearch, and several in-house written python/java micro services running on Kubernetes

Develop and integrate Docker containers to be deployed to Kubernetes

Monitor automated system integration tests to identify failed modules and components

Manage individual project priorities, deliverables, and deadlines

Foster an environment of collaboration with the different team members in the goal of providing quality service and product to our customers

To be successful in this role you need these skills (required):

Requires Bachelor's Degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience. (Additional years of experience in lieu of degree are accepteable)

Must possess an Active Top Secret/SCI clearance and ability to obtain and maintain a Polygraph

Experience with containerization, especially with Docker

Experience with DevOps practices and tools including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools and practices, especially Gitlab or Jenkins

At least 8 years of experience with the following:

Python

API development

Experience in Extraction, Transformation, and Load (ETL)

Experience enterprise search capabilities (such as Elasticsearch) to solve Big Data challenges

Experience with PostgreSQL and SQL server

Experience with Agile practices

Hands-on development and/or scripting experience, especially Python and Bash in Linux environment

Experience with AWS cloud-based architecture, services (Lambda, etc.), and software development

Experience with Artifactory

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Enthusiastic with the ability to work well in a team and a self-starter who can work on their own

You will wow us even more if you have some of these skills:

Active Security+ certification

Active CE certification

Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification by the Government

GraphQL Service

Apache NiFi

Experience with systems at scale

Kafka or other message passing systems

Experience of a production/enterprise system

Appian low-code application development platform

Experience with any of the following technologies:

GPU-based Kubernetes

SALT for deployment automation

Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash

#NMECDTP

Original Posting:

July 8, 2025

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $104,650.00 - $189,175.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

REQNUMBER: R-00162255

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.