Location: Beavercreek, OH 45431
Position Overview
Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR. Our National Security Solutions team delivers advanced engineering and technology to customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this role, your work will contribute to protecting our national security.
Why Join Us
- Innovative Projects: You will engage with cutting-edge initiatives that support the Department of the Air Force’s mission-critical operations. The team explores open source development, DevSecOps with modern CI/CD pipelines, containerization, Kubernetes, Terraform, Zarf, and advanced API management and database design. You will contribute to a modeling and simulation SaaS platform that enables dynamic compute power, tool access, and collaboration, shaping the future of military research and development.
- Collaborative Environment: Work alongside software engineers, DevSecOps architects, product leads, mission experts, and defense specialists in a dynamic, mission-driven setting. We follow Agile methods and secure development practices to ensure rapid iteration, compliance alignment, and seamless integration across modular systems. The culture emphasizes clarity, precision, and innovation, supporting open communication, iterative refinement, and deep collaboration to deliver compliant, strategic, and impactful software and documentation for the DoD.
- Impactful Work: Your contributions will directly support the Department of the Air Force in advancing defense technology, pioneering ways to provide access to compute power, modeling and simulation tools, and data sharing across organizations.
Position Summary
KBR is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer with a strong interest in storage architecture, distributed storage systems, and cloud-native data platforms to support the development and sustainment of the GEMSTONE platform. This role will help design, deploy, and manage storage solutions that support modeling and simulation applications, digital engineering environments, warfighter AI/ML workloads, user data, and platform services across both cloud and on-premises deployments. The successful candidate will collaborate with platform engineers and DevSecOps teams to implement scalable, secure, and resilient storage services within Kubernetes-based environments or alongside them and help shape GEMSTONE's long-term storage architecture for classified and unclassified deployments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement software solutions that support platform storage and data persistence services.
- Develop backend services that manage datasets, digital artifacts, metadata, user content, and workflow outputs.
- Support the design and operation of distributed storage solutions for Kubernetes-based environments and on-premises environments.
- Assist with the design and implementation of hybrid cloud-native and on-premises storage architectures within Kubernetes.
- Build and maintain web applications that allow users to discover, manage, publish, and access data assets.
- Support development of APIs for data access, artifact publication, metadata management, and storage lifecycle operations.
- Support persistent storage capabilities for interactive developer and engineering environments.
- Develop automation for backup, replication, migration, archiving, and recovery workflows.
- Collaborate with platform engineers to integrate storage services with identity, authorization, auditing, and monitoring solutions.
- Participate in architecture reviews, Agile development activities, code reviews, and testing efforts.
- Support deployment and validation through CI/CD pipelines.
- Contribute to technical documentation and operational procedures.
Work Environment
Location: Onsite or Hybrid in Dayton, OH
Travel Requirements: None
Working Hours: Standard
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline.
- Ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance
- Ability to learn complex software ecosystems and rapidly become proficient in new platforms and technologies.
- Experience with distributed storage platforms such as Ceph, Longhorn, OpenEBS, Portworx, GlusterFS, or equivalent solutions.
- Experience deploying or supporting applications within Kubernetes environments.
- Experience with on-premises storage infrastructure and storage management.
- Strong understanding of Linux file systems (ext4, XFS, Btrfs, ZFS), POSIX, VFS
- Familiarity with cloud-native storage technologies including Persistent Volumes (PV), Persistent Volume Claims (PVC), Storage Classes, and CSI drivers.
- 1-5 years of professional software development experience.
- Experience developing backend services using one or more modern programming languages: GoLang, Python, Java, or C#
- Experience developing web applications using React, TypeScript, or JavaScript
- Experience working with relational or non-relational databases.
- Understanding of software engineering principles and data management concepts.
- Familiarity with Linux development environments.
Desired
- Experience with RDBMS such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MSSQL
- Experience with non-RDBMS such as MongoDB, Redis, or Elastic/OpenSearch
- Experience supporting data-intensive workloads, such as distributed AI/ML, digital engineering, or modeling and simulation applications.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, Helm, ArgoCD, or Kubernetes platform operations.
- Experience supporting classified, air-gapped, or secure computing environments.
- Familiarity with S3-compatible object storage technologies.
- Understanding of metadata management and data cataloging concepts.
- Familiarity with API-driven data access patterns.
- Exposure to infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices.
Ready to Make a Difference?
If you are excited about making a meaningful impact in space defense and contributing to projects with real significance, we invite you to apply and join our team at KBR. Help shape the future with us.
KBR Benefits
KBR offers a competitive benefits package that may include a 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD and D, flexible spending, disability coverage, paid time off, and flexible work arrangements. We support career growth through professional training and development.
Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR
At KBR, our people and our Zero Harm culture are central to everything we do. This focus guides our team philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together.
KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
