Principal Data Storage Engineer & Architect — Flexible Hours

SciTec Incorporated; Huntsville, Northern (AL, KY); Hybrid; USD 151,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

HSA medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Long-term disability insurance

Profit-sharing plan

Discretionary bonus

Paid parental leave

Generous PTO

Flexible work hours

Job summary

SciTec Incorporated, a Firefly Aerospace company, seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead our Data Storage Domain. You will guide storage strategy, assessments, reference implementations, and cross-team standards for mission-critical data processing and workflows.

The role combines hands-on engineering with technical stewardship, mentoring, and documentation to raise organization-wide capability. DoD-cleared environment; on-site in Huntsville, AL.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• 10+ years designing, implementing, and troubleshooting production software with storage focus.
• Deep expertise with PostgreSQL and MySQL including schema design and transactions.
• Experience with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Redis or similar caching and document stores.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (Python, Go, Java, C++, or TypeScript).
• Comfortable in Linux development environments and strong written communication.

Responsibilities

• Assess current storage technologies, data access patterns, problems, and gaps.
• Define evaluation criteria and benchmarks to select core storage technologies.
• Document ADRs, reference architectures, and troubleshooting guides.
• Build reference implementations, starter templates, and reusable configurations.
• Guide data modeling, schema design, indexing, and query planning.
• Advise on transactional behavior, isolation, and concurrency.
• Establish caching, eviction, and hot-key management practices.
• Lead replication, capacity planning, backup/recovery, and failure analysis.

Skills

Data storage

Relational databases

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Backend programming

Python

Go

Linux

Technical writing

Mentoring

Cross-team communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Elasticsearch

OpenSearch

MongoDB

Redis

Memcached

AWS S3

Job description

SciTec Incorporated, a Firefly Aerospace company, seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead our Data Storage Domain. You will guide storage strategy, assessments, reference implementations, and cross-team standards for mission-critical data processing and workflows.

The role combines hands-on engineering with technical stewardship, mentoring, and documentation to raise organization-wide capability. DoD-cleared environment; on-site in Huntsville, AL.