Description

The DarkStar Group is seeking a Software Engineer with a TS/SCI Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in McLean, VA. Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program.

THE PROGRAM

The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community. We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013. We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.

THE PROJECT

The Sponsor applies technical resources for data engineering leveraging enterprise capabilities, where possible, to collect, ingest, format, and enrich open source data. The Sponsor requires engineers to develop and maintain data exploitation platforms that support and enhance the data collection proces

THE ROLE

• The Contractor shall coordinate with multiple entities, including mission partners, to ensure tools meet defined requirements.
• The Contractor shall apply an agile approach to software development consistent with the Sponsor’s project management and software development frameworks with a focus on demonstrating and delivering releasable software every iteration.
• The Contractor shall ensure all security vulnerabilities are addressed as appropriate by severity and maintain security accreditation, including maintaining plan of action for vulnerability remediation.
• The Contractor shall design data pipelines using data ingestion patterns and business requirements
• The Contractor shall build and deploy data pipelines in a cloud environment
• The Contractor shall document data flows and data pipeline architectures
• The Contractor shall perform end-to-end quality assurance of data
• The Contractor shall troubleshoot and correct issues with existing data pipelines
• The Contractor shall apply DevOps principles and philosophies to continuously delivery high value enhancements to software in a service-based architecture.
• The Contractor shall identify and document areas for improvement in workflows or systems for Sponsor’s consideration
• The Contractor shall maintain all source code in Sponsor-wide, remote Git repository.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience working in a Unix operating system to include usage of the Unix terminal.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining data transformation scripts in Python.
• Demonstrated experience with writing code in at least one of the following programming languages: Java, Go, C#, or Scala.
• Demonstrated experience ingesting, transforming, modeling, and storing data in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Demonstrated experience with modeling structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Demonstrated experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases to store and retrieve data (ex. Postgres SQL, MySQL, ElasticSearch, MongoDB).
• Demonstrated experience with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Demonstrated experience in the following concepts: Database, Data Warehouse, Datalake, and Lakehouse.
• Demonstrated experience with modern data flow management and orchestration tools. For example, Flyte, Apache Airflow, Dagster, or Apache NiFi.
• Demonstrated experience utilizing containerization technologies such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, or similar.
• Demonstrated experience ingesting, transforming, modeling, and storing data in the Sponsor’s cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Demonstrated experience with AI/ML methodologies and techniques

About The DarkStar Group

Our Company

The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you. 

Our Benefits

The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:

• very strong salaries;
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
• the ability to get increased salary if you don't need medical/dental/vision;
• 100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;
• a generously-funded HSA;
• an 8% 401(k) contribution; 
• 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
• the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
• a generous training budget;
• $25,000 employee referral bonuses;
• business development / growth incentives; and
• top notch company swag.

** We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. **
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.