United States-Virginia-Fairfax - United States-Maryland-Linthicum, United States
$102-200k
Full Time
12 days ago
Job description
Description
At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.
The Payload and Ground Systems organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission.
Northrop Grumman Space Systems Sector is looking for you to join our team as a Principal/Sr. Principal Software Engineer based out of Linthicum, MD or Fairfax, VA.
What You’ll get to Do: We are looking for a Software Engineer experienced in Java (as your primary and most skilled in Object-Orientated programming language) who wants to work on an agile development team using modern development practices tackling both new development and operational support of systems that advance National Security. Our Fairfax campus has numerous programs in all phases on the development and operational lifecycle, from smaller single scrum team efforts to larger multi-team efforts, some that leverage remote teams from other Northrop Grumman sites. Many of our programs are using a micro-service event driven architecture using Docker Containers, Kubernetes, Helm charts and AWS services. Programs also in Operations have maintenance and sustainment engineering needs on existing deployed baselines which may require troubleshooting and programming in C++/C. Many programs have a mixture of other languages in use such as Python or JavaScript. We are flexible and career growth focused permitting staff to either deepen skills on one program, or seek other internal opportunities over time to broaden skills, experiences, and mission exposure.
Basic Qualifications:
- For Principal: Bachelor’s degree in Science with 5+ years of software development experience; 3 years with a Master's; a PhD; or 9 years of related experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- For Sr. Principal: Bachelor’s degree in Science with 9+ years of software development experience; 7 years with a Master's; 4 years with a PhD; or 9 years of related experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Experience as a back-end, or full-stack developer
- Experience developing on teams using Agile methodology, process, and tools
- Experience designing, developing, and troubleshooting in Java
- Experience implementing and optimizing data processing algorithms and techniques
- Experience using object oriented design
- Experience using version control software
- Must have a current Top Secret security clearance and the ability to qualify for an SCI to be considered
- Must be able to obtain a Counterintelligence Polygraph (CI-Poly)
Offers are contingent upon receiving the Top Secret (TS) / SCI clearance
Preferred Qualifications
It is preferred that a given candidate has some of the preferred qualification below. No expectation of all.
- Experience designing, developing, and troubleshooting distributed systems
- Experience designing, developing, and troubleshooting in virtualized environments (VMs, AWS Cloud Instances)
- Experience as a full-stack developer
- Experience with software development on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Experience with range of software development phases from research, to new development, and to operations
- Experience with Dockerization and Container Management (Dockers and Kubernetes)
- Experience with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)
- Experience with AWS Services
- Experience with ground command/control or ground processing systems (scheduling, tasking, antennas, hardware interfaces, data processing)
- Experience with software system integration, testing, and deployment, including but not limited to automation
- Current Top Secret/SCI security clearance
- Current Counterintelligence Polygraph (CI-Poly) completed within the last 5 years
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