Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

At BlueHalo, an AV Company, our Cyber experts operate at the mission's edge. Using advanced cyber techniques, our team of technologists and analysts employ capabilities spanning traditional computing environments to Internet of Things (IoT), including offensive and defensive cyber operations and analysis, signals intelligence (SIGINT) discovery, and data science.

Our team is expanding to do the big things that have never been done before – the things the nation and the world are counting on us to deliver. Join the transformation and help us make this impact now. BlueHalo, an AV Company, is seeking an experienced Senior Software Developer to take ownership of a Kubernetes-native application designed to orchestrate and deploy workloads within the cluster it runs in. The role involves advancing a platform that integrates a modern web-based UI/UX, containerized microservices, and cloud-native components. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Go, TypeScript, Python, and Kubernetes, and will be comfortable working with containerization, orchestration, and event-driven systems. In addition, the candidate must be willing to collaborate with multiple teams to ensure operational excellence and maintain and improve documentation while adhering to internal development standards.

If that sounds like you and you're ready to make an impact now, not later, read on for the details and apply to make the most out of your career.

You're required to have this:

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph
• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• 20+ years of software development experience, with a strong focus on back-end and cloud-native applications. 4 years of additional relevant experience can be used in lieu of degree.
• Proficiency in Go (Golang), with practical experience developing production services.
• Experience building frontends using TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD).
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message brokers like Kafka.
• Familiarity with SQL databases and integration in containerized environments.
• Hands-on experience with container technologies like Docker, and orchestration via RKE2 or similar.
• Strong understanding of system design, RESTful APIs, and microservices.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills.

This position will be looking for the following skillsets:

• Hardware and software integration
• Infrastructure
• Provisioning
• Ansible CM
• Kubernetes
• Cloud Technologies
• Rancher
• Containers as a service (Caas)

You could also have this:

• Ability to perform in a team environment.
• Familiar with Atlassian Tool Suite (Jira, Bamboo, Fisheye). Experience with Agile development and Continuous Integration
• Experience working with AWS (EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS) or other cloud platforms.
• Experience with Kafka, NiFi, MetalLB, and MinIO in production environments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.
• Experience with Rancher Suite (Harvester, Longhorn, KubeVirt).
• LINUX or UNIX administration/maintenance experience
• Knowledge of SIGINT systems and dataflows
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and automation using cloud-init or Terraform.
• Background in observability (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar).
• Maintain and improve documentation and internal development standards

Salary Range: $170,000 - $214,000. The BlueHalo, an AV Company, pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Determination of official compensation or salary relies on several factors including, but not limited to, level of position, job responsibilities, geographic location, scope of relevant work experience, educational background, certifications, contract-specific affordability, organizational requirements, alignment with local internal equity as well as alignment with market data. Our compensation package also includes components designed to support employees' total well-being, which should be considered when evaluating our competitive benefits package. These benefits include health insurance, life insurance, disability, company holiday and paid time off, parental leave, 401(k) company match and contributions, professional development/training reimbursements, and other work/life programs.

About BlueHalo, an AV Company, Intelligence Systems. BlueHalo, an AV Company, provides specialized operational support, services and technology to plan, design, develop and execute critical missions in the national security community. BlueHalo, an AV Company, generates actionable insights from analytics through a suite of operationalized AI/ML tools for data collection/ingestion and subsequent text, geospatial, time series and image/video analytics to support open-source intelligence. BlueHalo, an AV Company, is a national source for classified Cyber/SIGINT missions and a leading provider of blockchain/crypto analytics and platform cyber resiliency, specializing in offensive and defensive cyber and SIGINT warfare technologies.