Senior Software Engineer (TS/SCI/Poly)

at  Leidos

Description
Leidos has an exciting opening for you as our next TS/SCI Senior Software Engineer supporting the National Media Exploitation Center (NMEC) under our 10-year DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) contract. Have impact as part of a mission focused, solutions oriented, and adaptive team that values innovation, collaboration, and professional development. Your job will be to design, implement, maintain, and monitor data pipelines, both in support of R&D prototypes and production pipelines. You succeed through effective cross functional collaboration in areas such as, but not limited to, development, product, and QA in a dynamic and fast paced environment. While most work is conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and, some unclassified development tasks may be performed remotely. Percentage of remote work will vary based on client requirements/deliverables.

As a senior member of the team, you bring deep expertise in software engineering, data engineering and will work closely with other infrastructure and network engineers, data scientists, and system engineers on the following key tasks:

• Perform Software Development, database builds, installs, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting of database systems (e.g., MariaDB/MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Qdrant, Milvus, etc.)
• Ensure data integrity by performing employing data engineering best practices
• Maintain database and data pipeline documentation, data dictionaries, and system diagrams

YOU DEMONSTRATE CLEAR DEVOTION TO THE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING BEST PRACTICES AND MEET THE FOLLOWING QUALIFICATIONS (REQUIRED):

• Bachelor’s Degree and 12+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10+ years of prior relevant experience. Additional years of experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
• Experience with SQL, NoSQL, and vector databases such as MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, FAISS, Milvus, Qdrant, etc.
• Experience designing and maintaining ETL and ELT pipelines with technologies such as Spark, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, Argocd, Metaflow, Kubeflow, etc.
• Experience with DevOps / MLOps, using CI/CD methodology with data pipelines, and cloud-native deployment paradigms.

YOU WILL WOW US EVEN MORE IF YOU HAVE SOME OF THESE SKILLS:

• An active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.
• Experience supporting data teams and data scientists.
• Experience on a production/ enterprise system.
• Experience in air-gapped environments.
• Application development and deployment in an AWS environment.
• AWS certifications.

• Perform Software Development, database builds, installs, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting of database systems (e.g., MariaDB/MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Qdrant, Milvus, etc.)
• Ensure data integrity by performing employing data engineering best practices
• Maintain database and data pipeline documentation, data dictionaries, and system diagram