Senior Principal Software Engineer

Clarity Innovations is a trusted national security partner, dedicated to safeguarding our nation’s interests and delivering innovative solutions that empower the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) to transform data into actionable intelligence, ensuring mission success in an evolving world.

Our mission-first software and data engineering platform modernizes data operations, utilizing advanced workflows, CI/CD, and secure DevSecOps practices. We focus on challenges in Information Warfare, Cyber Operations, Operational Security, and Data Structuring, enabling end-to-end solutions that drive operational impact.

We are committed to delivering cutting-edge tools and capabilities that address the most complex national security challenges, empowering our partners to stay ahead of emerging threats and ensuring the success of their critical missions. At Clarity, we are people-focused and set on being a destination employer for top talent, offering an environment where innovation thrives, careers grow, and individuals are valued. Join us as we continue to lead innovation and tackle the most pressing challenges in national security.

Role

In this role as Senior Principal Software Engineer, you will directly contribute to the core messaging framework at the heart of intra-platform orchestration. Your work on the team will be to directly contribute to the design and implementation of microservices written in Python and Go, containerized via Docker images, and deployed into a Kubernetes cluster. Additionally, this role presents unique opportunities, such as engagement with our customers and end-user groups to help iterate and streamline functionality.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, documents, tests and debugs software applications and systems while providing solutions to a variety of technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Develop robust and high-quality software aligned with the overall product vision, balancing user requirements with strategic goals and consistently delivering working solutions on schedule.
• Contributes to the completion of milestones associated with specific projects and CI development to ensure smooth versioning/release cycles.
• Build and integrate automated testing into the product’s codebase.
• Foster a collaborative team environment, mentoring junior developers and coordinating efforts across cross-functional teams to ensure project success.

Requirements

• A Bachelors Degree in a Computer Science
• 11-15 years of Software Engineering experience 
• Current TS/SCI and ability to obtain and maintain a CI Polygraph
• Familiar with contributing to or leading the design of new capabilities.
• Knowledge of security concepts, networks, and system internals to apply in daily tasks. 
• Proficient in Linux-based development environments (e.g., Ubuntu, RedHat Enterprise Linux, or derivatives).
• Proficient writing Automated Tests (e.g., unit tests, acceptance tests, system/integration tests).
• Proficient with version control software such as Git and hosted code repositories, such as GitLab.
• Experience with Kubernetes (K8s) deployment strategies, cluster lifecycle (deployment, troubleshooting, scaling), and container orchestration.
• Experience implementing modern DevOps practices and tools (e.g., CI/CD, IaC, GitOps) in production deployment workflows.
• Languages:
  • Python
  • BASH
• Technologies:

• • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Docker
  • Azure
  • Azure Stack Hub (or other Hybrid Cloud technologies and architectures)
  • Kubernetes-native VM orchestration (e.g. KubeVirt)
  • Rook-Ceph or similar HA storage solution
  • Istio or similar service mesh
  • Strongswan or sufficiently equivalent VPN
  • Registries (e.g. Harbor)
  • Keycloak or similar IAM solutions
  • GitLab CI/CD Pipelines
  • GitOps (Flux or ArgoCD)
  • IaC (Terraform and Ansible)
  • Kubernetes-native certificate management (e.g. cert-manager)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within SAFe and Agile Release Trains
• Experience breaking down complex tasks for more junior engineers on an Agile team
• Experience building and operating Go-based microservice distributed system architectures.
• Experience implementing formal security hardening requirements (STIG).
• JIRA
• Confluence
• Experience with Linux Network Administration
• Experience with Security Scanning and Remediation
• Experience with POAMs
• Hands-on experience working in classified cloud environments in a SCIF.
• Experience with AWS

We are an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.