Senior Software Engineer

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Responsibilities

The Team is seeking a Software Engineer to support a complex, mission-critical environment focused on developing and maintaining advanced software systems. This is a funded backfill opportunity supporting an established team, where you will contribute to high-impact efforts involving large-scale data processing, real-time systems, and advanced analytics.

In this role, you will support the full software development lifecycle, working independently or as part of a collaborative engineering team to design, develop, test, and enhance software solutions that directly support mission operations.

What You’ll Do

• Develop, maintain, and enhance complex software systems, including processing-intensive analytics, real-time systems, and large data set applications
• Review and test software components to ensure adherence to design requirements and document test results
• Resolve software problem reports and support system troubleshooting
• Apply appropriate software development and design methodologies based on the development environment
• Provide input to system design, including hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, and COTS/GOTS integration
• Perform requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components
• Recommend new technologies and processes to improve performance and scalability of software solutions
• Serve as technical lead across multiple software development teams
• Coordinate software development processes with customer and systems engineering teams
• Ensure quality control of all developed and modified software
• Delegate programming and testing tasks and monitor team performance

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Qualifications

• Twenty (20) years of experience as a Software Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline from an accredited college or university. Four (4) years of additional Software Engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with a current polygraph is required.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with AWS cloud environments, including serverless architecture and cloud application deployment
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), specifically Terraform
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on our critical National Security programs, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Target Salary Range

$176,000 - $282,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
Benefits Statement

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

Application Statements


EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.