Principal Software Engineer

Location: Huntsville, AL, USA

Work Location: onsite

• Provide technical and engineering analysis to support development of on-demand and cloud-based software for system of system development, integration, and testing.

• US Citizenship and an active Secret clearance.
• Masters degree in a STEM field with 12+ years working on missile defense-related or other complex, large DoD program/project.
• Design, development, and management of software libraries and Cloud-based software architectures and requirements.
• Experience in hardware in the loop and cloud-based testing to support software development and delivery.
• Experience in management and review of application programming interfaces and interface control documents and enabling software utilized in Cloud-based and HWIL environments.
• Experience in artificial intelligence development and tooling and agentic operations.
• Ability to works independently, as a team member, or leading teams/ tasks, applying engineering rigor to solve engineering/ scientific problems.

• Practical experience with software containerization concepts (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure) and migrating legacy enterprise applications to cloud-native architectures.
• Strong working knowledge of Agile and Lean software development principles, particularly within a secure DoW DevSecOps framework.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Knowledge of or direct experience deploying IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) to establish reproducible, auditable, and secure cloud environments.
• Experience using modern configuration management and version control platforms (e.g., Git) to enforce policy-as-code, baseline management, and compliance configurations.
• Top secret clearance or the ability to qualify for one.