Senior Software Engineer - Lead Mission-Critical Systems

Leidos Inc; Laurel (MD); On-site; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop, integrate, and enhance complex software systems supporting critical mission needs. You will solve challenging software and system problems, develop performance-driven solutions, integrate software into operational environments, and contribute technical leadership across the software development lifecycle.

At this level, you will also help ensure the quality of team products, implement improvements to engineering practices, and oversee

Qualifications

• Minimum fourteen (14) years of software engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline from an accredited college or university.
• Four (4) additional years of Software Engineering experience on projects using similar software processes may be substituted for the bachelor's degree.

Responsibilities

• Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements.
• Design and code new software and modify existing software to add capabilities.
• Debug software, correct defects, adapt applications to new hardware, and improve software performance.
• Develop and implement algorithms that meet or exceed system functional and performance standards.
• Design or implement complex algorithms subject to strict timing, system-resource, or interface constraints.
• Coordinate software-system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure operational specifications are met.

Skills

TS/SCI with Polygraph

Linux

Splunk

Python

Java

RESTful APIs

Docker

Ansible

JSON

COTS/GOTS

Team leadership

GIT/GitLab

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Puppet

RHCSA/RHCE

Jira/Confluence

Git/GitLab

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop, integrate, and enhance complex software systems supporting critical mission needs. You will solve challenging software and system problems, develop performance-driven solutions, integrate software into operational environments, and contribute technical leadership across the software development lifecycle.

At this level, you will also help ensure the quality of team products, implement improvements to engineering practices, and oversee