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Cleared Software Engineer

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions
Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 3/5/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/10/2026
Job Description

Ready for What’s Next? At Kratos, we encourage an entrepreneurial spirit balanced with discipline. We work hard, and take care of our customers, employees, and families. Recognized as thought leaders in our industry, we are motivated by creating and delivering innovative solutions to our nation and global customers. Kratos has an opportunity for Software Development Engineers with cyber knowledge and experience, to support the development, testing, and maintenance of Cryptologic Knowledge Solutions for analysis and applications for specific projects. This position will involve researching, designing, implementing, and testing software solutions.

Responsibilities And Duties

  • Develop applications, services, and components for specific products. Tasks include design, code, test, validate security and policy compliance, debug, document, deploy, and maintain the software.
  • Manipulate extremely large data sets, and data queries for existing or proposed databases
  • Provide requirement analysis and synthesis from system to component level software
  • Working with Real Time Systems and Business Management Information Systems
  • Resolve software issues and problem reports, modifying existing software to work with new hardware and or improve its performance
  • Assess design and implementation tradeoffs between solutions ranging from hardware vs software solution approaches, and new software development vs COTS/GOTS options
  • Provide inputs as a team member to help address functional areas in analytics, knowledge management, information access/management and cyber/threat (malware) analysis
  • Design, implement, and test complex algorithms requiring strict timing, following the software development, configuration management, testing, and validation processes, and ensure quality is built into the product
  • Utilize scientific analysis and mathematical modeling to predict performance and consequences of a design
  • Oversee/lead one or more software development teams to ensure work is completed per the requirements and process of each particular project
  • Generate designs in coordination with System Engineering to address the performance and cyber requirements of each particular project
  • Assist in developing and executing test procedures for software components
  • Generate and maintain technical documentation for each service and solution developed
  • Maintain Configuration Management of the appropriate data and relevant materials

Position is contingent upon successful contract award.

Experience And Skills

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and or a STEM degree, with 10 years of direct experience in a similar role (willing to consider a combination of education and years of directly related experience)
  • An active TS/SCI with a full Poly
  • Solid knowledge of C , Java, Python
  • Experienced in using Gitlab and Atlassian tools
  • Experienced working in an Agile and or SAFe development approach
  • Experienced in scoping and assessing efforts to get a task accomplished
  • Experience leading efforts of working requirements with customers and system engineers, and leading the development of software solutions for satisfying them
  • Experience working effectively in a cross functional team environment, developing solutions to customer/system requirement and addressing performance issues of an existing system
  • Experience developing and leading test approaches for validating system requirements
  • Experience leading multiple teams of software engineers in a development and validation effort for a deliverable software solution

Preferred Skills And Experience

  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Geolocation knowledge
  • J2EE, Javascript, Bash
  • Hibernate, SpringBoot, AngularJS, Ansible, Git, Subversion, Jenkins, Gradle
  • Cloud technologies, Apache Spark, Azure, VM
  • Docker, Container, Kubernetes
  • Space Domain Awareness projects requiring software development
  • CI/CD Pipeline

Position is contingent upon successful contract award.



Competitive salary based on experience and education

Kratos is valued for our ability to design and deliver leading edge, resilient solutions for aerospace communication, control, awareness and mission success across a continuum of offerings—from commercial to tailored custom solutions and integrated programs. Customers trust us to stay relevant and know we are in it for the long-haul. We bring both the capability and confidence that our customers value and depend on. And, we always deliver.

This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Job Benefits

  • Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance Coverage
  • Life/ADD & Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
  • 401(k) Savings Plan
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Paid Time-Off (PTO)
  • Holidays
  • Education Reimbursement


Kratos Defense is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer. EOE, Minorities, Females, Vet, Disabled, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity or any other protected class. All qualified job seekers are encouraged to apply. Kratos Defense is committed to America's veterans by providing opportunities for them to continue contributing after service to our nation. We also work to provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.

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Disability Accessibility Accommodation
If you require an accommodation to navigate or apply to our careers site, please send your request to HRAccessibility@kratosdefense.com or call 858-964-2916. Any inquires not related to requesting an accommodation will be discarded.

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The company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

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