Lead Principal Software Engineer - TS/SCI

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.

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

• TypeScript for frontend or tooling development
• OpenShift or Rancher Government Solutions in air-gapped deployments
• Service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
• Observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
• AWS GovCloud, C2S/SC2S classified cloud experience
• Cross-domain solution (CDS) experience
• DoD 8140 IASAE Level II or III (CASP+, CISSP)