Principal Software Engineer - Secret Clearance, 10% Travel

Northrop Grumman; Hollywood (MD); On-site; USD 114,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance may be available

Discretionary bonus

Long Term Incentives

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for our Defense Systems Sector in Hollywood, Maryland. This role supports the CMPC program within the Mission Data Management division, focusing on leading product vision, backlog, and stakeholder alignment.

The candidate will work with customers, managers, and engineering teams to prioritize features, demos, and releases while ensuring software quality and standards.

Qualifications

• B.S. in STEM field with 5 years of relevant experience.
• Active SECRET U.S. Government security clearance.
• Proficiency with Agile methodologies and CI/CD tools.
• Experience with C#, Java, or .NET, OOD, SQL, and scripting (YAML, Python, PowerShell, Curl).

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate a clear product vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned with mission objectives.
• Own and continuously groom the product backlog; prioritize features, enhancements, and defect fixes based on business value, risk, and stakeholder input.
• Act as the primary liaison between customers, program managers, engineering, and senior leadership; gather and synthesize requirements, feedback, and constraints.
• Facilitate product demos, sprint reviews, and release planning; ensure transparent communication of status and upcoming milestones.
• Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborates with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software.
• Determine computer user needs; analyzes system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepares operating instructions; designs and develops compilers and assemblers, utility programs, and operating systems.
• Ensure software standards are met.

Skills

Agile Methodology

CI/CD Tools

C#

Java

.NET

Object Oriented Design

SQL

YAML

Python

PowerShell

Curl

DevOps practices

REST

Microservices

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Git

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Education

B.S. in STEM field

Tools

Git

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Docker

Kubernetes

REST

AWS

Azure

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for our Defense Systems Sector in Hollywood, Maryland. This role supports the CMPC program within the Mission Data Management division, focusing on leading product vision, backlog, and stakeholder alignment.

The candidate will work with customers, managers, and engineering teams to prioritize features, demos, and releases while ensuring software quality and standards.