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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** HELM POINT SOLUTIONS
- **Location:** Meade, KS, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $170,000.0 - $195,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C (Programming Language), Java (Programming Language), Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Software Architecture, Scala (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Software Systems, Apache Spark, Information Technology, Dask
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/adcac24e-31cd-4e5d-ad16-a2836d839d34

## About the Role

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.

## Description

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


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