Remote Senior Software Engineer – Compliance & Production

Peraton; Reston (VA); Remote; USD 77,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to focus on compliance validation, defect remediation, and production support for a federal data integration program. You will help ensure ESA Section 7 regulatory requirements are met and maintain platform stability during production deployment and beyond.

The role supports ESA compliance across DOI/FWS/NMFS, with remote work options. Requires Java/Python and REST API experience, plus production migration and monitoring skills.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• Extensive experience supporting compliance validation on federal regulatory systems.
• Experience developing and executing production migration runbooks and rollback procedures.
• Experience with REST API integration and monitoring for production federal systems.
• Strong defect remediation and root cause analysis skills.
• Proficiency in Java or Python or equivalent backend languages.

Responsibilities

• Support ESA Section 7 compliance validation from a software perspective.
• Develop and maintain production migration runbooks and rollback procedures.
• Lead defect remediation for critical and high severity defects.
• Support post-deployment monitoring of system availability and performance.
• Document deployment outcomes in Production Deployment Report.

Skills

U.S. Citizenship

Public Trust clearance

REST API

Production monitoring

Root cause analysis

Java

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree + 8 years

Master's degree + 6 years

Associate degree + 10 years

High school diploma + 12 years

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Cloud data lakehouse on AWS

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to focus on compliance validation, defect remediation, and production support for a federal data integration program. You will help ensure ESA Section 7 regulatory requirements are met and maintain platform stability during production deployment and beyond.

The role supports ESA compliance across DOI/FWS/NMFS, with remote work options. Requires Java/Python and REST API experience, plus production migration and monitoring skills.