Software Engineer – Software Defined Networking, SDN
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Software Engineer hardening and modernizing government SDN software for Defense Unicorns, a secure defense software delivery company. Testing, vulnerability remediation, and DevSecOps integration for Navy environments.
Responsibilities:
- Own the technical assessment of an SDN codebase, including architecture, build process, dependency evaluation and management, runtime components, test coverage, security posture, and upstream open source relationships
- Design and implement secure, maintainable changes that remediate vulnerabilities, improve resilience, and preserve traceability between upstream software, Government-owned code, configurations, and local patches
- Develop unit, integration, end-to-end, regression, and failure-mode tests
- Institute AI-enabled tooling to harden and maintain the SDN application codebase
- Debug complex behavior across application, Linux, and network boundaries, including traffic flows, routing, segmentation, identity, failover, telemetry, and performance
- Partner with platform engineers on container readiness, packaging, CI/CD, deployment workflows, and automated security scanning
- Support lab validation, demonstrations, release acceptance, and conversion of operational findings into durable fixes and regression tests
- Produce technical documentation, participate in architecture and code reviews, communicate tradeoffs to stakeholders, and mentor other engineers
Requirements:
- 5+ years of software-engineering experience
- Proficiency in C++, Python and Bash scripting
- Demonstrated ownership of production or legacy codebases
- Strong Linux fundamentals, including services, processes, permissions, logging, package management, and command-line troubleshooting
- Strong networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, routing, DNS, TLS, segmentation, interfaces, policy enforcement, and traffic analysis
- Experience with secure software development, dependency management, vulnerability triage, patching, code review, and remediation
- Strong testing discipline across unit, integration, end-to-end, and regression testing
- Working knowledge of containers, version control, build automation, CI/CD, registries, observability, and modern release practices
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills, including design documents, technical assessments, and runbooks
- U.S. citizenship
- ACTIVE US Government SECRET security clearance or higher
Benefits:
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Premiums are 100% Company Paid
- Health Savings Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Budget
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)
- Federal Holidays
- One week for Thanksgiving
- Two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s
- Paid Parental Leave
- Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
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