Principal Software Engineer

Modern Technology Solutions

Fort Meade, MD

Full Time

Senior

25 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

The Principal Software Engineer works individually or as part of a team to design, develop, modify, and improve software components within complex systems. The role involves analyzing user requirements, making system-level trade-offs, and ensuring software performance and functionality meet specified standards. The position requires collaboration, technical expertise, and adherence to strict timing and resource constraints, often utilizing cloud platforms and database technologies.

Key Responsibilities

Provides specific input to the software components of system design, including hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, and requirements analysis.
Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements.
Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features.
Develop simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories.
Design or implement complex database or data repository interfaces/queries.
Develop or implement algorithms to meet or exceed system performance and functional requirements.
Assist with developing and executing test procedures for software components.
Design, develop, and modify software systems using scientific analysis and mathematical techniques.
Implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing and system resource constraints.
Coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure operational specifications are met.

Requirements

Experience using tools like Python and SQL.
Experience with cloud computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or AWS GovCloud.
Experience with ETL frameworks.
Bachelor's degrees in computer science, computer programming, engineering, or relevant technical or analytics discipline.
4+ years of software engineering experience on projects with similar software processes, which may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph (FSP).
U.S. Citizenship is required for this position.