Data Storage Domain Lead - Principal Software Engineer

SciTec; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 151,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4% Safe Harbor 401(k) match

Fully paid health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Long-term disability

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Flexible work hours

Job summary

SciTec, a Firefly Aerospace company, seeks a Principal Software Engineer to serve as Data Storage Domain Lead. This hands-on role guides how storage systems are selected, designed, and operated to support mission-critical data processing and workflows in a U.S.

government contracting environment. The ideal candidate has 10+ years of production software experience with data storage, strong database expertise, and the ability to mentor engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field as listed.
• 10+ years of professional experience designing and troubleshooting production software systems.
• Deep expertise with relational databases and schema design.
• Production experience with search/document stores, caches, or object storage.
• Strong understanding of distributed storage concepts and recovery.
• Ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs and communicate them clearly.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language and Linux environments.
• Strong writing, mentoring, and cross-team communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Assess storage technologies, workloads, and capability gaps across teams.
• Define evaluation criteria and maintain reference storage technology collections.
• Document decisions, ADRs, and tuning guides for shared use.
• Build reference implementations and reusable configurations.
• Guide data modeling, indexing, and performance optimization.
• Advise on transactions, isolation, consistency, and durability.
• Establish caching and hot-key management practices.
• Lead replication, partitioning, backup, and failure analysis efforts.
• Collaborate with domain leads on cross-domain problems.
• Periodically update recommendations as technologies evolve.

Skills

Data storage systems

Relational databases

Distributed storage concepts

Backend programming languages

Linux development

Technical writing & mentoring

DoD clearance eligibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

MongoDB

Redis

Memcached

AWS S3

Job description

SciTec, a Firefly Aerospace company, seeks a Principal Software Engineer to serve as Data Storage Domain Lead. This hands-on role guides how storage systems are selected, designed, and operated to support mission-critical data processing and workflows in a U.S.

government contracting environment. The ideal candidate has 10+ years of production software experience with data storage, strong database expertise, and the ability to mentor engineers.