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# Software Engineer, Level 3 (AE26061435)

- **Company:** Advantage Inc.
- **Location:** Annapolis Junction, MD, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $157,000.0 - $170,000.0
- **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:** June 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1531e93316fafc93

## About the Role

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.

## 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.


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