Senior Principal Software Engineer – Space Systems (Secret)

Northrop Grumman; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 129,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Company paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Sr. Principal Software Engineer to support a program developing and fielding a new ground-based radar for Space Domain Awareness.

You will contribute to the design, implementation, integration, and sustainment of software supporting mission execution, system control, data processing, and radar sustainment. The ideal candidate will have a strong software engineering foundation and apply systems engineering to define, develop, test, debug, and document

Qualifications

• Experience developing software in Java and building services/microservices.
• Proficient with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience with RESTful APIs, CI/CD (GitLab), and Linux environments.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design, implementation, integration, and sustainment of software for mission-critical radar systems.
• Document software solutions and collaborate with systems engineers across the program.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Linux

REST APIs

JUnit/Mockito

SQL

Debugging tools

Communication

Security clearance

Agile/Scrum

C/C++ integration

Education

B.S. in Science

M.S. in Science

Ph.D.

Tools

Cloud platforms

Kafka

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Sr. Principal Software Engineer to support a program developing and fielding a new ground-based radar for Space Domain Awareness.

You will contribute to the design, implementation, integration, and sustainment of software supporting mission execution, system control, data processing, and radar sustainment. The ideal candidate will have a strong software engineering foundation and apply systems engineering to define, develop, test, debug, and document