Backend Engineer - Cloud & Edge Systems

Booz Allen Hamilton; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 69,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid leave

Tuition assistance

Retirement plan

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Backend Software Engineer in the McLean, VA area to design, implement, and test back-end components across edge and cloud platforms. You will work with Go, C++, and Python, contribute to secure design, and help maintain reliable, scalable systems for Booz Allen's clients.

Join a team that codes with modern tools, performs reviews, and emphasizes secure handling of credentials, data, and software updates, while leveraging AI-assisted development practices.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience with programming languages Go, C++, or Python.
• Experience with OpenSSL, TLS/mTLS, certificates, or secure protocol design.
• Experience with Windows SCM or Linux system services, cross-platform installers, cross-compilation.
• Experience with SQLite or SQLiteModernCpp, encrypted local databases, or cloud-hosted SQL databases.
• Experience with Secure software update systems, signed manifests, package verification, defensive archive extraction, or rollback or recovery design.
• Experience with Distributed job state, device or fleet management, IoT or edge systems, telemetry, or disconnected networking.
• Bachelor's degree or 5+ years of experience in software engineering in lieu of a degree.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, debug, and document an assigned software component in a combined edge and cloud application.
• Develop C++20 systems software, Go cloud services, installers, persistence, OTA processing, or integration tests according to the assigned focus.
• Write unit, contract, integration, boundary, restart, and negative tests.
• Diagnose behavior across cloud, Linux, Windows, database, and network boundaries.
• Use VS Code through Remote SSH into standardized Windows and Linux build VMs.
• Participate in small code reviews and explain all code produced with AI assistance.
• Maintain bounded inputs, stable errors, structured logs, and careful handling of credentials, signing material, and other sensitive data.
• Update protobuf contracts, migrations, build configuration, runbooks, and test evidence together with implementation changes.

Skills

Go

C++

Python

OpenSSL/TLS

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Windows SCM

Linux systems

protobuf

gRPC

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Backend Software Engineer in the McLean, VA area to design, implement, and test back-end components across edge and cloud platforms. You will work with Go, C++, and Python, contribute to secure design, and help maintain reliable, scalable systems for Booz Allen's clients.

Join a team that codes with modern tools, performs reviews, and emphasizes secure handling of credentials, data, and software updates, while leveraging AI-assisted development practices.