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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** BAE Systems
- **Location:** Pittsburgh, PA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, C++ (Programming Language), Mobile Application Development, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Code Review, Databases, Digital Architecture, MongoDB, NoSQL, Performance Tuning, Real Time Simulation, Message Oriented Middleware, Software Engineering, Software Modules, Backend, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Low Latency, Restful APIs, Data Pipelines, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=65153dedaa1da9d8

## About the Role

* Strong Golang/C++ experience
 * Strong experience with RESTful API design principles
 * Experience with both private (on-prem) and public cloud
 * Experience with Kubernetes
 * Experience with realtime simulation or other performance-critical systems
 * Excellent communication skills

Education and Experience:

 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
 * 5+ years professional software development with Golang/C++ or other backend languages

Additional Attributes:

 * Experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL database
 * Experience with NATs or other asynchronous messaging frameworks
 * Cloud Computing experience (On-Premises, AWS, Kubernetes, etc)
 * Experience with GIS data processing or other mathematically intensive field
 * Additional experiences with other programming and scripting languages
 * Leadership experience

## Description

Senior Software Engineer working with our Cloud Infrastructure team to develop and maintain distributed services for driving real-time simulation systems.

Objectives:

 * Design, implement, and maintain distributed backend services optimized for low latency and high throughput.
 * Ensure APIs and data pipelines meet simulation performance requirements.
 * Lead technical design efforts to ensure scalability, reliability, and efficient use of infrastructure resources.
 * Collaborate across teams in order to deliver robust, production-grade systems.
 * Mentor engineers in system design, performance optimization, and modern cloud-native development.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

 * Develop and maintain software features
 * Design architecture of software modules
 * Break down whole projects into implementation plans for the team
 * Actively mentor less experienced programmers
 * Actively propose improvements, e.g. better solutions, tech debt removal, development processes, etc.
 * Actively communicate with stakeholders
 * Perform code reviews
 * Participate in the engineering hiring process
 * Participate in project/feature estimations


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