Grid Networks LLC

Senior Software Engineer

Reston, VA
Full Time
Experienced

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, who will be a significant contributor to our enterprise software systems and services, as well as to our internal and customer facing applications and APIs.  As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, building, and deploying custom telecom data-processing systems and analytic services.  The position will entail developing in Python and GoLang languages, API creation and modification, using relational databases, maintaining deployment and CI/CD scripts, and operating with Linux-based micro-services architectures. Familiarity with front end technologies that consume and interact with backend services is a strong plus. This role will also be responsible for mentoring other junior developers, establishing best practices, and generally growing the team’s software engineering development capabilities. Our ideal candidate should have 7+ years of relevant experience.

What you'll do...

Candidates should have deep understanding and extensive experience in software engineering to do the following:

  • Build client-server applications, to include defining interfaces and pipelines, handling errors, security (e.g. encryption), and testing.
  • Design reusable APIs to include both library APIs and exposed web services APIs (REST, gRPC, etc.).
  • Use message-bus architectures and message queue implementations.
  • Design and implement Relational database schema and data models.
  • Work with horizontal scaling / concurrency via threads, non-blocking, actors, distributed worker processes, etc.
  • Conduct system performance analysis and tuning.
  • Support and document development of scalable, repeatable deployment procedures.

You'd be a great fit if you meet the following...

  • 7+ years relevant experience
  • Ability to work in a cross directorate, multi-project environment.
  • Have a great attitude and aptitude to learn new things.
  • Able to work independently and as part of a team.
  • Strong organizational, problem-solving, project management and communication skills
  • Able to multi-task, establish priorities and meet deadlines.
  • Have significant experience with the following technologies / in these technical areas:
    • Linux system usage and administration, to include tracing problems in network stack or system utilization, package management, etc.
    • Container image development - Docker build and deployment.
    • Container orchestration (Docker Swarm, Kubernetes)
    • Cloud compute (AWS)
    • Experience with PostgreSQL
    • Building micro-services in Golang or Python (ideally both)
    • Micro-service architectures
    • Structured logging, Elasticsearch, Kibana
    • Build frameworks, continuous integration tools.
    • Source control (git), collaboration tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence).

It would be even better if you also had...

  • A Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related fields
  • Working knowledge of CI/CD dev ops pipelines
  • Strong familiarity with Ansible and similar automated-deployment tools
  • Both SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL databases (e.g. Redis, Elasticsearch, Neo4j) experience
  • Listed examples of open-source work (e.g. projects in a public git-type repository)
  • Experience and comfort with BOTH Golang and Python

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