What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer - Geospatial & AWS position at aqua IT?
* THIS JOB REQUIRES AN ACTIVE TS/SCI CLEARANCE *
We are seeking several Software Engineers to support the development of scalable geospatial data processing and cloud-native systems supporting DoD and Intelligence Community programs. This role will involve designing and maintaining distributed data pipelines, geospatial processing workflows, streaming architectures, and cloud infrastructure supporting near real-time analytics and large-scale geospatial data environments.
Candidates may support a mix of backend software engineering, geospatial data engineering, cloud infrastructure, streaming/data pipeline development, spatial database engineering, and geospatial algorithm development depending on team placement and technical strengths. Work will include development in AWS cloud-native environments using Python and Infrastructure-as-Code practices, while supporting highly scalable distributed systems and production-grade geospatial solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-native software systems and data pipelines
- Support real-time data ingestion, processing, transformation, and analytics workflows
- Build and optimize geospatial processing solutions, spatial algorithms, and vector data workflows
- Develop and maintain distributed systems leveraging AWS services and streaming architectures such as Apache Kafka
- Design and optimize database solutions including PostgreSQL/PostGIS and cloud-native data services
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using AWS CDK and modern deployment strategies
- Support ETL/ELT workflows, API integrations, performance optimization, and operational monitoring
- Collaborate across engineering teams to troubleshoot production issues and improve system scalability and reliability
Required Qualifications:
- Active TS/SCI Clearance
- 5 years of software engineering experience in cloud-first or distributed environments
- Strong Python development experience
- Experience with AWS cloud-native services and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts
- Experience supporting distributed systems, data engineering, or backend application development
- Familiarity with cloud services such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, or EventBridge
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes
- Strong understanding of scalable system design, performance optimization, and troubleshooting
Desired Experience:
- Apache Kafka or real-time streaming architectures
- Geospatial data processing, spatial algorithms, or vector data workflows
- PostgreSQL/PostGIS or geospatial database optimization
- ETL/ELT pipelines, analytics platforms, or data lake architectures
- AWS CDK and multi-environment deployment strategies
- Cloud-native geospatial application development and large-scale distributed processing environments
Salary : $155,000 - $205,000