Software Engineer

As a software engineer, you ensure mission systems remain reliable, secure, and continuously improving. While you’ll support day-to-day operations-troubleshooting issues, maintaining components, and meeting security requirements-you will also enhance, refactor, and modernize key application features across large-scale cyber analytics platforms. Working with cross-functional teams, you’ll contribute to UI updates, backend services, ETL pipelines, and cloud-native components that keep mission-critical systems evolving to meet user needs.

As a software engineer at Booz Allen, you’ll have an operational impact from day one. With a team of professionals, you’ll maintain applications and keep systems working. You and your team will use programming and scripting languages as you continuously enhance and maintain the applications, troubleshoot any issues that arise operationally, and upgrade the systems to meet security requirements.

Most importantly, you’ll advise our clients on the best ways to improve and modernize the existing systems. Work with us to help us secure crucial systems while watching them grow and modernize.

• 5+ years of experience maintaining and enhancing applications within an Agile environment
• 3+ years of experience working with legacy enterprise systems and distributed or microservices architectures
• Experience with web, API, or ETL components in modern, cloud-based, or containerized environments
• Experience with distributed messaging or data-processing frameworks, including RabbitMQ, Redis, Celery, or Kafka
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools, including GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, or Terraform
• Top Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience in technical management or program management, Master’s degree and 5+ years of experience in technical management or program management, or 12+ years of experience in technical management or program management in lieu of a degree

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with Angular, .NET C#, Python ETL, TypeScript, React, or FastAPI
• Experience with Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or other search indexing technologies
• Experience with Kubernetes, cloud deployments, AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience working with vector, graph, or multimodal AI-driven pipelines
• Knowledge of shell scripting, automation, or DevOps/CI/CD practices
• Knowledge of relational or hierarchical data structures and functional programming

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Identity Statement

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model

Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen or customer facility, in alignment with your leadership’s expectations and the needs of the role.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed full-time at a customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.