Overview

Draper is an independent, nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. The 2,000 employees of Draper tackle important national challenges with a promise of delivering successful and usable solutions. From military defense and space exploration to biomedical engineering, lives often depend on the solutions we provide. Our multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists work in a collaborative environment that inspires the cross-fertilization of ideas necessary for true innovation. For more information about Draper, visit www.draper.com.

Our work is very important to us, but so is our life outside of work. Draper supports many programs to improve work-life balance including workplace flexibility, employee clubs ranging from photography to yoga, health and finance workshops, off site social events and discounts to local museums and cultural activities. If this specific job opportunity and the chance to work at a nationally renowned R&D innovation company appeals to you, apply now www.draper.com/careers.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Draper is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. We understand the value of diversity and its impact on a high-performance culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

Draper is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, please contact hr@draper.com.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

In this role, you will play a principal architectural role in designing data structures that enable performant transfer of myriad data types to provide real-time collaboration and situational awareness in a map-based application. You will use your breadth of experience in programming and the software development lifecycle to assess various technologies for their worthiness in providing solutions to meet our customer's demanding requirements.

Technologies and skillsets we're targeting:

- Conflict-Free Replicated Data Type (CRDT) structures

- database languages

- Redis

- GraphQL

- web RTC

- gRPC

- cloud-based architecture

- load balancing

- scaling services

Other secondary knowledge areas important for this role:

- API gateway

- federated gateway

- load testing

- content delivery network

- video format translation

- message queues

- containerization

- Docker

- Podman

- orchestration

- Kubernetes

- authentication

- Keycloak

- CAC

- OAuth

- web server communications

- RESTful API development

- web sockets

Qualifications

Qualifications

This position requires regular travel (>25%) for customer meetings, conferences, and test events as well as a current US security clearance or the ability to obtain one.

About you

The work environment is fast-paced and high pressure. We seek an experienced engineer who craves challenges and loves puzzles, pushes the envelope, and would choose to skip to the boss level first.

We value character on our team and expect personal excellence in teamwork and collaboration just as much as in technical capability.

The following may describe you:

- has 15 years designing, building, and maintaining data structures and databases

- has 7 years leading software development teams, assigning tasks and guiding less experienced engineers

- has worked with customer or company management to identify requirements and needs and demonstrated an ability to consistently deliver software products that delight the customer

- can apply good software practice in most every situation regardless of the language or technology being used to solve a problem

- has a proven track record of orchestrating and managing micro services in the cloud at scale

- has significant experience developing back-end web micro services (e.g. node.js, Kotlin)

- desires a high-intensity, highly collaborative environment

- has contributed to, or led, open source projects

Security Requirement

Ability to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.