Software Engineer, Software Engineer

Job Title: Software Engineer
Clearance Required: Public Trust (National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI)) 
Work Location: Remote; Asheville, NC; Silver Spring, MD; Stennis Space Center, MS; Boulder, CO

The demand for high-value environmental data and information has dramatically increased in recent years. NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) was established to improve NOAA’s ability to meet that demand by hosting and providing access to one of the most significant archives on earth, with comprehensive oceanic, atmospheric, and geophysical data, products, and services. From the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun and from million-year-old sediment records to near real-time satellite images, NCEI is the Nation’s leading authority for historical environmental information. The NCEI Data Stewardship Division (DSD) works with NOAA and the broader community to provide and maintain the core tools, systems, services, policies, and procedures that enable long-term information preservation, dissemination, and service delivery in a cost-effective, efficient, and reliable manner. This position is for a Software Engineer to support an Agile Team within the Software Development Branch. This Agile Team in this DSD Branch focuses on maintenance and sustainment of the NCEI enterprise archive systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plans, conducts, and coordinates Agile software development activities
• Applies the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the software development lifecycle
• Manage the lifecycle of change requests, deploying changes across various environments
• Ensures software standards are met
• Corrects program errors, prepares operating instructions, compiles documentation of program development, and analyzes system capabilities to resolve questions of program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques, and controls

Required Qualifications:

• Education:
• BS/BA Degree in an IT/IS field, such as Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or a related field 
• Experience/Skills:
• Minimum Years of Overall Experience: 4 
• Minimum Years of Specific Experience in Field: 2  
• Minimum Years of Experience Working with Linux: 2  
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Python, R, Scala, C++, Java, C#, and JavaScript 
• Excellent problem-solving skills and broad understanding of relationships between hardware and applications
• Excellent communication skills to interact with both technical and non-technical stakeholders or team members
• Professional attitude, strong work ethic, and proven ability to follow through on open issues and handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment with dynamic priorities
• Team player, responsive and self-managed
• Demonstrated experience with front-end development using React, Angular, or other JS framework
• Strong understanding of RESTful architecture, API design principles, and data formats (JSON, XML)
• Working knowledge of version control systems, such as Git
• Hands-on experience with data flow and pipeline frameworks such as Kafka, NiFi, Spark, and RabbitMQ

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with data modeling and databases (SQL, NoSQL)
• Working knowledge of containerization concepts using Docker or Podman
• Experience with cloud technologies such as Terraform, AWS EKS, Step Functions, Lambda, Aurora, DynamoDB, etc.
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking and working knowledge of remote system workflows (SSH, port forwarding, server/client architecture, etc.)
• Experience deploying, maintaining, and utilizing an ElasticSearch cluster
• Working knowledge with collaboration tools, such as Atlassian Jira and Confluence

Preferred Certifications:

• Agile Certification, such as Certified Scrum Master or Scaled Agile Framework®
• Cloud Certification, such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Developer, or Solutions Architect

Salary and Benefit Information:

The likely salary range for this position is $77,715 - $89,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position and could fall outside of this range.