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# Staff Systems Engineer, Enterprise Mesh

- **Company:** Telemetry |
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Systems Engineering, OpenID, Information Technology, Enterprise Integration, Integration Frameworks
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_b778d85877dc7d49ca37544811b1ed50

## About the Role

* Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
 * Educational Background:Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

Experience:10+ years in systems engineering, solutions architecture, integration engineering, technical program management, or forward-deployed engineering.

 * Architecture judgment in API- and service-based systems:Demonstrated ability to design and critique a REST or gRPC integration, an authentication flow (OIDC, service credentials, secretless), a schema or data contract, and an event stream. Reads specifications and source code fluently.
 * Ownership across an organizational boundary:Experience as the technical lead to an external engineering team, or as the owner of a developer-facing platform surface with external or internal customers.
 * Technical program execution:Demonstrated ability to conduct a technical working session, hold a substantive technical position within it, document the resulting decisions, and track outstanding commitments on both sides.
 * Technical writing:Reference architectures and integration guides an engineer can follow to completion. A writing sample is required.
 * Communication across audiences:Demonstrated ability to convey the same technical decision to a partner's engineering team and to a senior military stakeholder., * Service in, or direct support of, US Army organizations, including a working understanding of how a unit adopts new software.
 * DoD delivery experience: accreditation and authorization processes, multiple classification enclaves, and operation in disconnected or bandwidth-constrained
environments.

 * Co-development experience with a defense prime, systems integrator, or defense technology company on a jointly delivered capability.
 * Developer experience work: documentation as a product, SDKs, developer portals, onboarding automation.
 * Domain fluency in command and control, geospatial systems, data fabrics, tactical networking, or sensor-to-effector integration.

## Description

* Lead partner engagements end to end; Conduct the technical exchange, own the integration design, and drive open items to written resolution across both organizations.
 * Design across organizational boundaries; Own the problems that span several engineering teams and more than one company, where no single team owns the answer. You lead through design, orchestration, and proof of concept.
 * Establish reusable patterns; Convert what recurs across engagements into reference architectures, decision guidance, and integration documentation, and define the standard other teams document to.
 * Own the intake process; Translate partner and field needs into scoped, prioritized engineering work, and return a documented decision on each request.
 * Scale onboarding across the Army; Identify where integration and onboarding depend on individual intervention, and establish the automated or self-service paths that allow every Army formation and industry partner to onboard without one.