Senior Software Engineer

Are you ready to thrive? Through training, teamwork, and exposure to challenging technical work, let Leidos show how to accelerate your career path.

                                                                             

Join Leidos’ all-star team supporting the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Enterprise Digital Modernization Accelerator initiative. This program is at the forefront of deploying enterprise-scale AI, data, and mission platform capabilities across cloud, edge, and classified environments. We are looking for creative, driven, and mission-focused professionals ready to take their career to the next level.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Support the development of distributed backend services, APIs, and platform microservices supporting enterprise AI operations.

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of analysts, engineers, and developers to solve complex challenges and deliver innovative, production-ready algorithms and platforms.

• Apply cutting-edge techniques in statistical analysis, predictive analytics, entity resolution, graph analytics, explainable AI, and operational analytics.

• Contribute to the integration of software development, AI, DevSecOps, data engineering, platform engineering, cybersecurity, and observability in a fast-paced, engineering-centric environment.

• Enjoy flexible work arrangements, including remote and on-site work in the National Capital Region (Rockville, MD and/or Alexandria, VA).

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or equivalent graduate degree in a quantitative or analytical field (Software Development, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Physics, Computational Social Science, etc.). Additiona/Relevant experience may be substituted for a degree.

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, data science, analytics, or quantitative intelligence analysis, developing analytics and AI/ML solutions and demonstrating progressive technical development and outcomes. (4+ years with a Master’s).

• Active Top Secret clearance and eligibility for TS/SCI with Polygraph.

• Demonstrated experience collaborating with hybrid teams to research, build, and deploy complex, user-friendly analytical platforms.

• Track record of creative problem solving, active learning, and mission-focused outcomes.

• Ability to analyze and assess software development or data acquisition requirements and determine optimum, cost-effective solutions.

• Experience with the following:

  • Backend microservices

  • Distributed systems

  • API development

  • Event-driven architectures

  • Kubernetes-native application development

  • Cloud-native engineering

• Preferred Languages

  • Rust

  • Go

  • Python

  • TypeScript

  • Django

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting military or intelligence community customers.

• Familiarity with Azure/C2S, hardware platforms (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs), and advanced analytical methodologies (social network analysis, supply chain analysis, NLP, classification algorithms, image processing).

• Familiarity using git, svn, JIRA, or other version control technologies

• Familiarity with the following technologies

  • NATS

  • Kafka

  • Redis

  • ClickHouse

  • OpenTelemetry

  • OpenRouter

  • LiteLLM

 

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

June 25, 2026

Pay Range:

Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

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