Principal Software Engineer - Cloud, Spring Boot & Kubernetes

Leidos; Corridor North (MD); On-site; USD 154,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

11 paid Holidays

401K with a 6% company match and vest

Flexible Schedules

Discounted Stock Purchase Plans

Technical Upskilling

Education and Training Support

Parental Paid Leave

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to modernize and enhance a mission-critical enterprise application in the Intelligence sector. You will design and implement Java and Angular components, RESTful APIs, and data access layers while shaping architecture and driving containerized deployments in Kubernetes.

You will collaborate on API design, database modernization, and CI/CD practices, contributing to DevSecOps initiatives and joint engineering reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum of 14 years of software engineering experience on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
• Security Clearance Requirement: Active TS/SCI with polygraph

Responsibilities

• Analyze user and system requirements to design, develop, test, and maintain Java and Angular applications.
• Design, develop, and support RESTful APIs, service integrations, and data access components for Oracle, PostgreSQL, and other relational databases.
• Support application modernization initiatives, including Spring Boot migration, database modernization, microservices, and containerization.
• Deploy and support containerized applications in Kubernetes environments across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting, technical design, and continuous process improvement.
• Develop automated unit and integration tests, support CI/CD pipelines, and maintain technical documentation using Confluence and Jira.
• Provide backup database administration support for Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB while cross-training across application, database, and deployment technologies to ensure operational continuity.

Skills

Java

Angular

Spring Boot

RESTful APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to modernize and enhance a mission-critical enterprise application in the Intelligence sector. You will design and implement Java and Angular components, RESTful APIs, and data access layers while shaping architecture and driving containerized deployments in Kubernetes.

You will collaborate on API design, database modernization, and CI/CD practices, contributing to DevSecOps initiatives and joint engineering reviews.