Software Engineer, Level 3 (AE26061435)

Advantage Inc.
Annapolis Junction, MD, United States
about 2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
3 years minimum
Compensation
$157,000.0 - $170,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

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

Job description

  • 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 following languages below is beneficial: Python, Scala, Java, C.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Software engineering?, Do you have a Bachelor’s degree?, * 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.

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • Health insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Paid holidays, BENEFITS - Full-time Employees
  • 401K with employer contribution. Fully vested at 1 year anniversary.
  • Five (5) weeks comprehensive annual leave (25 workdays).
  • Additional leave can be earned in lieu of overtime.
  • 11 Paid Federal Government Holidays.
  • Up to $5,000 annually for individually tailored education / training program.
  • All education plans must be pre-approved by Advantage Engineering management.
  • Life Insurance at 1x annual salary with employee option to purchase additional coverage for self and dependents.
  • Short-term and long-term disability.
  • We contribute a generous portion towards the cost of monthly medical plans for any of the three medical, 1 dental and 1 vision plan provided by CareFirst.
  • All employees are eligible to earn generous incentives and performance bonuses.

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