Backend Software Engineer - TS/SCI Polygraph Clearance Required

About the Team Here at BTI360, we've built a culture that's passionate about developing software engineers. Software doesn't build itself. People do. In fact, teams of people do. That's why our primary focus is on developing better craftsmen, better teammates, and better technical leaders. By putting people first, we're not just giving our teammates more opportunities to grow, we're also raising the bar of the software we ship. BTI360 previously has been voted 10 years in a row as a TOP Place to Work by the Washington Business Journal. About the Role Are you interested in enabling end-users and data scientists access to the data they need when they need it? We're hiring Backend Software Engineers with TS/SCI clearance and polygraph to expand our Data Lake offering built on top of AWS S3 and DynamoDB into an enterprise-wide Data Hub. This system currently ingests data from multiple sources, processes and stores that data, performs indexing, and disseminates the content to downstream systems in a streaming fashion. We will expand the capabilities to provide a secure, highly available, and scalable environment for both humans and machines to derive data insights and analytics from raw through fully modeled and indexed forms. With your help, we will modernize the data lake with new access patterns and services to include AI/ML enrichment, ETL and modeling, search, and dissemination, all via an event-driven architecture. Around all of this we will need rock-solid APIs to support both programmatic and UI-driven access and management. In this role, you will: Develop software utilizing your knowledge of various data access patterns and underlying technology implementations. Properly secure the data from unauthorized access at multiple data access points (e.g. search discovery rules, repository read rules, S3 bucket policies, etc). Apply your excellent knowledge of the AWS ecosystem to support both the existing infrastructure (built on EC2 with Terraform) and to help us build the next-generation data hub. You might thrive in this role if you: Possess an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph Have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field Have 4 years of Java experience Have 4 years of Spring Boot (Spring Framework) experience Have experience with testing frameworks and tools (e.g. JUnit, AssertJ, Mockito, Spring Runner) Have experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python, Bash) Have experience with search technologies such as AWS OpenSearch/ElasticSearch/Solr/Lucene Have experience working within a Linux environment Have experience working with a message-driven architecture (e.g. SNS/SQS, Kafka, Kinesis, JMS, etc.) Have experience with Git for source control Demonstrate ability to determine the right tool or technology for the task at handWorks well in a team environment Strong communication skills You will excel in this role if you have also these skills: Experience operating Data Lakes or Data Hubs with knowledge on how to optimize storage technology for client access patterns, and how to propagate CRUD operations throughout a distributed stack (including versioning nuances). Familiarity in the AWS ecosystem of services (e.g. S3, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, Lake Formation, EMR, ECS, RDS, Kinesis, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch) Familiarity with Reactive Programming (e.g. Project Reactor, RxJava) Experience with Kubernetes and/or Docker container environment Ability to identify external data specifications for common data representations Experience building monitoring and alerting mechanisms for data pipelines Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Ansible) Contributor to an open source community The ideal candidate will be based in the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area BTI360 benefits for full-time teammates Fully paid healthcare premiums Competitive salaries and performance bonuses Career development and in-house training Continuing Education: $5,250.00 annually towards education Up to 5 weeks PTO plus 2 weeks of federal holidays 401K dollar for dollar matching up to 6% annually - vested immediately on day 1 Giving Back: Serving communities locally and across the globe Social Events (happy hours, golf tournament, BTI360 Family Festival and more) Commitment to Diversity At BTI360, we believe that unlocking the potential of others is not just a mission-it's the heart of our culture. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where every individual can grow each day, lead with humility, and do the right thing. Our core values guide us in developing software that makes a difference, primarily serving national security customers in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. We celebrate diversity and are dedicated to creating an environment of mutual respect and inclusion where everyone can bring their true selves to work. Join us in a workplace where your contributions are valued, your growth is encouraged, and your potential is unlocked. Together, we develop great software fast and deliver exceptional solutions for our customers.