Senior Software Engineer New Washington, DC - Hybrid

Virtru; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO policy

Learning & Development Stipend

Stock options

Full medical, dental, and vision

Job summary

Virtru is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Delivery Engineering to build custom integrations and policy enforcement points for cleared customers. You will work on environments that may be air-gapped, collaborate with customer engineers, and translate requirements into scalable, reusable deployments.

You will mentor peers, use AI coding agents to accelerate delivery, and travel up to 25% as needed to support mission-critical deployments for government and enterprise customers.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI security clearance required for work in classified environments.
• You have built and shipped production software in a language you can discuss in depth.
• Ability to explain architectural designs to government security reviewers.

Responsibilities

• Build custom integrations and policy enforcement points for cleared customers.
• Collaborate with customer engineers inside cleared environments to align on scope.
• Template first-builds into reusable assets for future deployments.
• Leverage SDKs/APIs and report gaps with reproducible outcomes.
• Follow engineering standards and participate in design reviews.
• Package work for air-gapped environments and provide documentation.
• Partner with deployment/Platform Eng to ensure smooth releases.
• Use AI coding agents to improve velocity and quality.
• Mentor peers and help define customer-facing engineering standards.
• Travel up to 25% as needed.

Skills

Active TS/SCI clearance

Shipped production software

Explain design to security team

Customer-facing engineering

Education

Tools

.NET on Windows

Go

Kubernetes

OIDC / SAML / ABAC

AI coding agents

Job description

While the rest of the security industry obsesses over locking data down to prevent it from being lost or stolen, we're doing something fundamentally different at Virtru. We're setting data free so that you can intentionally share it with others, but without sacrificing security, privacy, or control.

We've created both a suite of powerful data protection applications and an open platform that's sparking an ecosystem of innovation. Through the Trusted Data Format (TDF) open standard, we're not just protecting data; we're creating a new paradigm where security enables sharing rather than preventing it.

Think of us as the Android of data protection: a robust platform with an open core that developers and partners can build upon, coupled with our own best-in-class applications that showcase what's possible when you reimagine security from the ground up.

Backed by Iconiq Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Foundry Capital, and Tiger Global, we're helping Fortune 500 companies and government agencies discover that true data security means having the freedom to share, collaborate, and innovate — without compromise.

Compensation: $190,000 - 250,000/year

Virtru protects data wherever it travels, for customers ranging from commercial enterprises to the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, Law Enforcement, and Federal Civilian agencies. Many of these customers run Virtru inside their mission environments, and the most sensitive of those environments are cleared spaces where work happens on site, alongside the customer's own engineers.

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Delivery Engineering organization, you'd be helping to build a founder team focused on making these deployments simple, easy, and fast. You will be the engineer who builds what a cleared customer needs and cannot get from the product alone: custom integrations and policy enforcement points (the components that enforce access policy inside a customer's application) delivered into the customer's environment. You will sit with customer engineers, understand how their systems really work, and ship working software that fits them.

You will work directly with deployment engineers and forward deployed engineers on the customer side of each engagement, with QA to prove what you build before it ships, and with our product engineering and Platform Engineering counterparts to carry what you learn back into the product. The test of your work is simple: the second time we face the same customer need, we should be configuring something you built, not writing it again.

The impact of this role is company and product wide, heavily enabling our goals to scale Virtru, partner, and customer led deployments non-linearly without having to throw more humans at the problem. You'll be expected to come up with AI-native design patterns that will increase our velocity without compromising our high bar for quality and security. The right candidate is excited about working on a small, nimble, highly autonomous and empowered team where everyone is expected to make high judgement, high velocity decisions independently and with urgency. If you want a role where the connection between what you build and what the customer achieves requires no explaining, this is one.

As a Senior Software Engineer in Delivery Engineering, your responsibilities will include:

• Build custom integrations and policy enforcement points for cleared customers, scoped against a statement of work, tested with QA, and delivered into environments Virtru does not operate.
• Work directly with customer engineers inside cleared environments to understand their systems, agree what will be built, and explain your design to their security team.
• Turn what you build twice into a reusable asset. When a second customer needs the same thing, the first build becomes a template, a library, or a tool that deployment engineers and forward deployed engineers can use without you.
• Build on the SDKs and APIs that our product engineering teams maintain, and bring gaps and defects back to them with a clear reproduction and a documented outcome.
• Write code that follows the engineering standard set by Delivery Engineering's Principal Software Engineer, and submit your work to the design review that standard calls for.
• Package your work so it installs, upgrades, and runs in disconnected environments with no path to the internet.
• Partner with deployment engineers and forward deployed engineers so the person who installs your work in the field has what they need: documentation, test evidence, and a clear way to report back.
• Partner with our Platform Engineering counterparts on how your work is built, signed, and released.
• Use AI coding agents as part of your daily workflow, and help the team learn which patterns raise quality and speed together.
• Mentor and learn from peers across the organization, and help define what good looks like for customer-facing engineering at Virtru.
• This role may require travel up to 25% of the time.

Skills that will help you thrive in this role:

• Must haves
  • An active TS/SCI US security clearance. This role will work in classified environments at least 25% of the time.
  • You have built and shipped production software. You have owned code from design through release and maintenance, in a language and stack you can discuss in depth, and you can show us what you built and what you would do differently.
  • You can explain a design to a skeptical government security team. You can take a customer's security reviewers through what your software does, what it touches, and why it is safe to run, and you can answer the follow-up questions.
• Nice to haves
  • Windows and .NET depth: production .NET on Windows, including Windows Services, signed installers, and managed distribution. Many of our customers' end-user environments are Windows-heavy, and some of our policy enforcement points deploy on Windows client endpoints.
  • Go proficiency, which is what the Data Security Platform and OpenTDF are written in.
  • Kubernetes experience, including packaging and running software across more than one distribution.
  • Identity and authorization integration experience: OIDC, SAML, and attribute-based access control (ABAC).
  • Familiarity with Zero Trust security architecture and concepts such as Policy Enforcement and Decision Points, cryptography, and identity.
  • Experience delivering software into air‑gapped or disconnected environments.
  • Experience building with AI coding agents.
• Where this role may not be a fit
  • Wanting a product-only role with no customer contact. Much of this job is working next to the customer, in their environment, on their problem. If you prefer to build away from customers, this role may not be for you.
  • Inability to earn trust and credibility with partners and customers. You may be the person who has to explain to a skeptical government security team why our software is safe, or to an internal VP of Engineering why we need to prioritize critical platform features. Those have to be conversations you are willing and excited to have.

Virtruvian qualities that will set you up for success:

• Thinking outside of the box to respectfully challenge your teammates and managers in the pursuit of excellence
• Strong sense of urgency with an action-oriented mindset
• Able to collaborate and adapt to shifting priorities as business needs evolve
• Comfortable with asynchronous communication including slack, email, zoom, etc.

At Virtru, we believe people do their best work when their wellbeing is put first. This is why we make your wellbeing our priority with a thoughtful and holistic program that encompasses Occupational, Mental, Social, Physical, and Environmental Wellness by offering benefits such as…

• Flexible PTO policy — we strongly encourage you to take time off (in addition to 14 holidays) to ensure that you are getting the proper time needed to unplug and recharge.
• A $1,500 annual Learning & Development Stipend focused on providing you the resources to continually learn and professionally grow.
• Frequent company-sponsored team celebrations that provide ample opportunities to connect with teammates and be social!
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program
• Access to Headspace, a mental health app tailored to your specific needs.
• A flat 3% contribution to your retirement account
• A high degree of flexibility — Have an appointment, errand, or family emergency to take care of? Hop to it! We give you the time and space to take care of you and your own first.

In addition to wellbeing, Virtru places a strong emphasis on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Our DB&I Council is dedicated to fostering an inclusive workplace and making the psychological safety of each and every one of our teammates a top priority.

• Competitive compensation
• Generous parental, medical, and bereavement policies
• 401K contribution and stock options
• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• New Hire Swag and IT Welcome boxes
• Structured semi-annual 360° performance reviews

Virtru is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and everyone is encouraged to apply. Virtru is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.

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