Sr Staff/Senior Software Engineer

SciTec offers a mission driven, onsite Software Engineer role in Aurora, CO with a salary range of USD 130,000 to 170,000 per year. This Sr Staff and Senior Software Engineer position supports Missile Defense Solution software in an operational, customer facing setting, focusing on system optimization and on site support for OPIR sensor data processing. The role emphasizes reliability, proactive engineering, and clear cross team communication, backed by a comprehensive benefits package and flexible work hours.

Benefits

• 4% Safe Harbor 401(k) match
• 100% company paid HSA medical insurance with two buy up options
• 80% company paid dental insurance
• 100% company paid vision insurance
• 100% company paid life insurance
• 100% company paid long term disability insurance
• Short term disability insurance
• Annual profit sharing
• Discretionary performance bonus
• Paid parental leave
• Generous paid time off including holidays, vacation, and sick leave
• Flexible work hours

Responsibilities

• Ensure operational services remain available, reliable, and performant for critical mission systems
• Monitor software infrastructure health using metrics, logs, and alerts
• Respond to incidents and work toward resolution
• Maintain and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities
• Conduct root cause analysis for outages in infrastructure and services
• Implement corrective and preventative actions
• Participate in post incident reviews
• Improve system reliability through automation, standardization, and proactive engineering
• Support the software system lifecycle, including upgrades, patches, and configuration changes
• Improve performance, scalability, and reliability of existing software systems
• Leverage knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and performance trade offs
• Assist with integration, testing, and debugging in Linux environments
• Contribute to documentation, knowledge sharing, training, and clear cross organization communication
• Fulfill other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, or related technical field
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years of professional Linux experience
• Solid understanding of software engineering best practices and commitment to high quality code
• Demonstrated performance optimization skills for data intensive or compute intensive systems
• Ability to work onsite at Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, Colorado
• Effective communication skills and strong attention to detail

Technologies

• Linux
• Docker
• Podman
• Kubernetes
• Jira
• Confluence

Colorado Residents

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Preferred qualifications

• Active TS/SCI DoD security clearance
• Advanced degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, or a related technical field
• Experience with mission critical data processing workflows for remotely sensed data such as OPIR, EO/IR, SAR, Spectral, RF or similar
• Experience with software development, integration, and deployment within government frameworks
• Knowledge of cloud environments and transitioning from on premise solutions
• Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker or Podman and Kubernetes
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Experience with operational planning activities
• Experience providing customer support and help desk activities
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