Senior Software Engineer

You’ll join a skilled team responsible for strengthening the systems that protect the country’s most sensitive missions - delivering standardized, scalable security solutions across multiple teams and environments.

What You’ll Do In this role, you will:

• Design, document and execute tests of FOSS, COTS and GOTS software architectures to determine what aspects of the software and/or computer infrastructure are limiting performance.
• Research and identify metrics necessary to understand performance limitations of the software and/or computer infrastructure to support testing.
• Research and identify monitoring necessary to support timely alerting of infrastructure and software failures encountered during testing.
• Identify hardware and software failure trends and develop mitigations encountered during testing.
• Perform root cause analysis.
• Work with the customer metrics and monitoring team to introduce new metrics capabilities to support testing.
• Modify the software architecture and/or develop new software capabilities to overcome performance limitations encountered during testing.
• Experience with the distributed computing FOSS software frameworks below is beneficial. Apache Spark, Dask, Ray
• Experience developing software in the languages below is beneficial: Python, Scala, Java, C

What You Bring

Ten (10) years’ experience as a SWE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.

Bachelor’s 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 bachelor’s degree.

Pulled from the full job description

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Profit sharing, * CareFirst Gold Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
• 401(k) with Company Match
• Profit Sharing & Performance Bonuses
• Annual Education & Training Allowance
• Leave Buy-Back Program
• Flexible Work Environment
• Career Growth & Community Engagement Opportunities

Helm Point Solutions is a cybersecurity and physical security firm supporting the nation’s most critical systems and infrastructure. We’re seeking experienced Senior Software Engineers to support vital intelligence operations that directly impact national security.