Lead Principal Software Engineer - TS/SCI

The Fountain Group

Washington, United States of America

1 month ago

Role details

Contract type

Temporary contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Regular working hours

Languages

English

Experience level

Senior

Compensation

$ 208K

Job location

Washington, United States of America

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Distributed Systems

Python

Openshift

Ansible

Prometheus

Software Engineering

TypeScript

Istio

Grafana

Kubernetes

Rancher

Kafka

Front End Software Development

Terraform

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to support a mission-critical program within the Intelligence Community. This is an on-site SCIF position requiring a TS/SCI clearance with an active Full Scope Polygraph prior to consideration.

Requirements

Top Secret/SCI with Active Full Scope Polygraph - must be active prior to start Bachelor's degree preferred, equivalent experience may be substituted. 8+ years of software engineering experience, with majority in cloud-native, Kubernetes-based, or distributed systems contexts., * Active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph - must be active prior to start

Deep experience coding in Go and/or Python in cloud-native contexts
Strong Kubernetes expertise: CRDs, Helm, GitOps, multi-tenant deployments
Experience with event-driven or agent-based systems (Kafka, controller patterns)
Familiarity with infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible)
Demonstrated end-to-end system component delivery ownership
Proven mentorship and technical leadership capability
Comfortable balancing automation with operator oversight in classified environments

Desired Skills