Senior Software Engineer - AI & Cloud Platforms (Remote)

Koitecc Solutions; Rockville, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop distributed backend services and platform microservices for enterprise AI operations. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver production-ready algorithms and platforms across cloud, edge, and classified environments.

Required 12+ years in software/analytics, active TS/SCI with polygraph eligibility, and experience with backend microservices, distributed systems, and API development.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, data science, analytics, or quantitative intelligence analysis.
• Active Top Secret clearance; eligibility for TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• Experience collaborating with hybrid teams to research, build, and deploy complex analytical platforms.
• Experience with backend microservices, distributed systems, API development, and cloud-native engineering.

Responsibilities

• Develop distributed backend services, APIs, and platform microservices for enterprise AI operations.
• Collaborate with analysts, engineers, and developers to deliver production-ready algorithms and platforms.
• Apply techniques in statistical analysis, predictive analytics, entity resolution, graph analytics, explainable AI, and operational analytics.
• Integrate software development, AI, DevSecOps, data engineering, platform engineering, cybersecurity, and observability.
• Support flexible work arrangements in Rockville, MD and/or Alexandria, VA (hybrid remote/on-site).

Skills

Backend microservices

Distributed systems

API development

Event-driven architectures

Kubernetes-native development

Cloud-native engineering

Rust

Go

Python

TypeScript

Django

Education

Bachelor’s, Master’s, or equivalent graduate degree in a quantitative field

Tools

NATS

Kafka

Redis

ClickHouse

OpenTelemetry

OpenRouter

LiteLLM

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop distributed backend services and platform microservices for enterprise AI operations. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver production-ready algorithms and platforms across cloud, edge, and classified environments.

Required 12+ years in software/analytics, active TS/SCI with polygraph eligibility, and experience with backend microservices, distributed systems, and API development.