Senior Back-End Software Engineer
Upper Marlboro, MD

Job Description

Job Description

Description

JOB DESCRIPTION:

We are looking for a creative and self-motivated software engineer to take a central role in developing and maintaining our cutting-edge compute infrastructure for evaluation of emerging technologies like AI and facial recognition.

The successful candidate will join the multidisciplinary team of the Identity and Data Sciences Laboratory (IDSL), a technology evaluation group within SAIC. The IDSL combines the dynamic environment of a startup with the stability and work-life balance of a large government contractor.

The IDSL staffs the Maryland Test Facility (MdTF; http://mdtf.org) where we carry out large scale testing of emerging technologies. The candidate will join a multi-disciplinary team composed of software engineers, data scientists, behavioral scientists and integration engineers.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Maintain and update a flexible data collection backend to meet changing requirements.


* Write and implement new backend services.


* Interface daily with data scientists, test engineers, and front end developers


* Elicit requirements for a backend biometric collection system and analytic frameworks.



Qualifications

REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, AND QUALIFICATIONS:

* Required BS and 5+ years -OR-


* MS and 3+ years of hands-on experience in the following areas:


* Building Microservices (e.g. in Golang, python, or Java)


* Containers (e.g. Docker/Rkt)


* Container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes/Marathon/Rancher/ECS)


* Monitoring (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana)


* Databases (e.g. MySQL, MemSQL, BigQuery)


* CI/CD Tooling (e.g. Jenkins/Travis/Bamboo)


* Automation Tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet)


* Leveraging cloud environments (e.g. AWS or GCP)


* Thrives on being on the critical path and able to work independently.


* Able to think critically to solve business challenges with technology, and can clearly explain and document technical advantages of solution.


* Prioritizes code simplicity/maintainability.


* Comfortable working within a diverse team including test engineers, data scientists. Willing to iterate with end users of system to adapt system requirements to changing needs.



DESIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

* Experience working in a research environment.


* Experience with statistics/data analytics to be able to provide data scientists organized data.


* Experience deploying and managing open source tools.


* Familiarity with task tracking tools such as JIRA.



Overview

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability