Staff Software Engineer
Location
District of Columbia
Posted
26 days ago
Salary
Not specified
Job Description
Job Requirements
- Is this you?
- Technical Leadership & Seniority
- 12–20+ years of experience with meaningful time at Staff level or above.
- Track record owning architecture for mission-critical, large-scale production systems.
- You think in systems and trade-offs, communicate clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and thrive in ambiguity with high ownership.
- Experience shaping engineering culture within government (DoD, Intel) organizations.
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and high ownership.
- Domain and Tech Stack
- You have experience handling and securing large-scale production data
- Proficiency with AWS (S3, Lambda, RDS), securing large-scale production data, and ML dev in Python/JS.
- You are excited by how AI enables and demands better solutions to time-old problems like data sharing.
- AI-Augmented Engineering
- You use AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) daily and instinctively.
- You prompt-engineer through complex architecture and debug sessions, leverage LLMs across the full development lifecycle, maintain a clear-eyed view of AI limitations in high-security contexts, and stay current with emerging models and tooling.
- Familiarity with MCP or similar LLM integration frameworks.
- You have a clear-eyed view of AI limitations, you know when to trust AI-generated output and when to verify.
- You are current with the AI tooling landscape, you experiment with new models on the weekends.
- Bonus Points:
- Vector store deployment at Enterprise scale
- Infrastructure management (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS)
- Encryption, authentication, DevOps, or SRE expertise
- Production experience launching Agentic services leveraging LLMs, embeddings, and inference.
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