Principal Frontend Engineer - US

Location: Massachusetts, Maryland, or Greater Austin, TX 
Team: Product & Engineering
Employment Type: Full-Time, Remote

About VulnCheck

VulnCheck is transforming vulnerability intelligence by helping security teams act faster and with more confidence. Our platform delivers early, high-quality exploit intelligence, deep asset correlation, and contextual insights to help organizations stay ahead of emerging threats.

About the Role 

We're looking for a Principal Frontend Engineer to own and evolve the systems that power VulnCheck's user-facing products. This is a hands-on role where you'll drive the direction of the product UI and collaborate closely with your teammates to shape how customers experience VulnCheck's intelligence. Although this is a 100% remote role, candidates must be located in Massachusetts, Maryland, or Greater Austin, TX.

What You'll Do

• Own the product UI end-to-end: design, architecture, development, and continuous improvement
• Drive frontend direction—establishing patterns, component systems, and design standards
• Write clean, maintainable code across the stack (frontend-first, with backend context as needed)
• Partner closely with Product to translate requirements into polished user experiences
• Improve performance, accessibility, and reliability of customer-facing interfaces
• Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to frontend architecture decisions
• Debug and resolve production UI issues with durable, thoughtful solutions
• Mentor other engineers on frontend best practices and contribute to engineering culture
• Support Marketing and other teams across the company as relates to web frontend needs

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping production web platforms
• Strong proficiency in modern frontend frameworks (Nuxt/Vue preferred)
• Full-stack competence—comfortable working across the codebase, backend experience a plus
• Experience owning a product UI or web property end-to-end
• Solid understanding of web performance, accessibility, and browser compatibility
• Ability to work closely with Product and translate visual direction into high-quality implementations
• Strong ownership mindset—you notice what's broken and fix it without being asked
• Clear communication and ability to collaborate cross-functionally

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in B2B SaaS or developer-facing products
• Familiarity with design systems or component library ownership
• Background in cybersecurity or technical data products
• Experience in high-growth or startup environments

What We Offer

We believe people do their best work when they feel supported, trusted, and valued. VulnCheck offers benefits designed to meet a wide range of needs and lifestyles:

Benefits and Perks

• Unlimited PTO
• 401k plan with 100% match on first 3%, then 50% of the next 3-5% of compensation
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage
• Generous paid parental leave
• Remote friendly environment with flexibility
• Expense reimbursement for Cell Phone & Internet 
• Ongoing professional development, coaching, and learning resources
• Opportunities for career advancement within a fast-growing team

Why Join Us

Built on over two decades of cybersecurity experience, our team of experts understands the intricacies of vulnerabilities, their exploitation in the wild, and how to leverage this data to build more effective cybersecurity products that produce better outcomes for organizations.

VulnCheck gives organizations a tactical advantage by providing best-in-class exploit & vulnerability intelligence information. We have a sense of duty to protect the critical infrastructure we rely on including medical devices, power grids and telecommunication networks. We were founded in 2021 in Lexington, Massachusetts.

VulnCheck has a transparent, collaborative, and supportive culture - we are looking for people who have a growth mindset, are curious and innovative. Our team is smart, but humble, hardworking, and supportive.

VulnCheck is proud to be an Equal Employer Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. VulnCheck is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. *Even if your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply—we value potential just as much as a perfect resume.

Position Overview 

We are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to serve as a senior individual contributor—equivalent to a Staff or Principal Data Engineer—with full ownership of analytics data architecture and engineering standards. This hands‑on technical leadership role is part of a high‑impact analytics team responsible for enabling data‑driven decision‑making across satellite network planning, capacity and demand forecasting, network operations, and performance analytics. 

The Lead Data Engineer will design, build, and operate scalable, production‑grade data pipelines and analytical infrastructure to ensure high‑quality; reliable data is consistently available across global planning and operational workflows. This role defines how operational, network, and business data is ingested, modeled, governed, and consumed—transforming complex, heterogeneous datasets into trusted, decision‑ready analytics assets. 

While this position does not include people management, it carries significant technical ownership and influence. The Lead Data Engineer drives architectural strategy, establishes engineering best practices, and mentors analytics professionals to elevate data engineering maturity across the organization. 

 Success in this role is measured by enabling fast, confident, and consistent data‑driven decision‑making—not platform uptime alone. The focus is on delivering durable analytics foundations that support insight, alignment, and execution at scale 

Key Responsibilities 

Data Architecture & Platform Ownership 

• Own the end‑to‑end analytics data architecture, including ingestion, modeling, governance, and consumption patterns. 

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable data pipelines supporting forecasting, network planning, and operational analytics. 

• Establish and operate a lakehouse‑style architecture (raw → normalized → curated). 
• Integrate diverse, complex operational and telemetry data sources into unified analytical and semantic models. 

Analytics Enablement & Decision Systems 

• Translate ambiguous business needs into durable data products, including curated datasets, semantic layers, and standardized KPIs. 

• Define KPI frameworks with consistent definitions, calculations, and refresh logic across teams. 

• Enable self‑service analytics by delivering trusted, well‑documented, discoverable datasets for BI and advanced analytics. 

  Data Quality, Reliability & Governance 

• Implement automated validation, monitoring, and freshness checks across critical pipelines. 

• Identify and resolve systemic data issues proactively, ensuring uninterrupted operational insights. 

• Design schemas and pipelines with governance needs in mind, including lineage, auditability, and certification. 

  Technical Leadership & Standards 

• Serve as the technical authority for analytics engineering and own architectural decisions. 

• Establish and enforce engineering best practices, including testing, version control, documentation, and modular SQL/Python patterns. 

• Mentor analysts and engineers to raise the quality and reliability of data products. 

• Capture metadata and ownership for scalable governance and enterprise cataloging. 

  Qualifications 

Education 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data engineering, information systems, or a related technical field required. 

• Master’s degree preferred but not required. 

  Experience 

• A minimum of 7–10 years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or related fields. 

• Proven experience designing and operating production‑grade data systems at scale. 

  Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience in telecom, satellite networks, IoT, or other high‑volume telemetry data environments. 

• Familiarity with predictive analytics, forecasting workflows, or ML‑driven feature pipelines. 

• Hands‑on experience implementing data quality frameworks, metadata systems, or data lineage tooling. 

• Experience supporting enterprise analytics on a global scale. 

  Soft Skills 

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate across cross‑functional teams. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 

• Strong problem‑solving, debugging, and prioritization abilities. 

• Ability to operate effectively in fast‑moving, ambiguous environments. 

• Meticulous attention to detail, ensuring accuracy across all documentation and data products. 

• Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical concepts for non‑technical stakeholders. 

  Technology Stack 

• SQL (advanced proficiency for analytics‑grade modeling and transformations) 

• Python (data processing, automation, pipeline development) 

• Cloud platforms such as AWS (preferred), Azure, or GCP 

• ETL/ELT tools such as Airflow, Prefect, or Azure Data Factory 

• Modern data ecosystems including Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, or similar 

• BI and analytics tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Looker 

• Version control (Git), CI/CD, and modern testing frameworks 

 Physical Requirements 

• Ability to work in a standard office environment and use a computer for extended periods. 
• Occasional virtual or in‑person collaboration across global teams. 

This job description may not be inclusive to the duties and responsibilities listed. Additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time or the scope of the job may change as needed by business demands. 

Overview of Opportunity 

Join the Trusted Electronics & Effects business unit of Two Six Technologies, where you’ll provide strategic technical leadership in vulnerability research across hardware, software, and operational domains. Working alongside engineers, researchers, and clients, you’ll identify vulnerabilities, assess operational impacts, and develop effective countermeasures. Our fast-growing roster of government customers relies on us to deliver advanced security solutions, and we’re looking for a Principal Vulnerability Researcher to drive research programs and mentor technical teams.

This role requires regular on-site support at the Laurel, Maryland customer site.

What you will do:

• Lead the identification of vulnerabilities and attacks across hardware, software, personnel, logistics, procedures, and physical security, linking them to operational and mission impacts.
• Identify vulnerabilities and potential attacks across hardware, software, procedures, logistics, and physical security of systems
• Develop proof of concept (PoC) code for identified vulnerabilities
• Reverse-engineer targeted embedded systems to identify vulnerabilities
• Review source code looking for risks and vulnerabilities
• Analyze the effects of vulnerabilities on mission outcomes and operational effectiveness.
• Compare system attack techniques and propose operationally effective countermeasures
• Produce reports, briefings, and perspectives on actual and potential attacks
• Provide technical leadership on research efforts, prioritizing investigations, reviewing methodologies, and overseeing proof-of-concepts.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers and researchers, reviewing technical approaches and fostering skill development.

What you will need (Basic Qualifications):

• Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, or a related field and 7 years of relevant experience, OR Master’s degree and 9 years of relevant experience, OR Bachelor’s degree and 11 years of relevant experience, OR Associate’s degree and 13 years of relevant experience.
• Relevant experience: computer/information systems design/development, programming, information/cyber/network security, reverse-engineering, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, computer forensics, information assurance, or systems engineering
• Proficiency in C/C++, Python, and at least one ISA (e.g. x86/ARM/MIPS)
• Proficiency in Linux command-line environments
• Experience using a decompiler such as IDA Pro, Binary Ninja, or Ghidra
• Experience using vulnerability research tools such as emulators or fuzzers
• Experience using a software debugger such as GDB or WinDbg
• Ability to work on-site at Laurel, Maryland customer site regularly.

Nice If You Have (Preferred):

• Experience translating vulnerabilities into operationally relevant impact assessments and countermeasures.
• Experience producing technical briefings for operational stakeholders
• Experience using a hardware debugger
• Experience with UART, SPI, I2C
• Experience with common secure communications such as TLS or SSH 
• Familiarity with embedded firmware, RTOS, or networked systems
• Familiarity with high-side environments

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph required

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About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer (Data) to join our fast-paced, collaborative data team. In this role, you will have broad authority to drive the direction of our technographic data services, building world-class data pipelines and systems to process billions of signals and data points. This is an exciting opportunity to solve challenging problems and make a big impact as we invest in making technographics a first-class offering.

What You'll Do:

• Build and optimize big data pipelines to extract and process signals from the web, job postings, and other sources
• Design and implement data architectures and storage solutions to efficiently handle massive data volumes
• Collaborate closely with data scientists to support and integrate ML models into data workflows
• Continuously improve data quality, performance, and scalability of our technographic data platform
• Drive technical strategy and roadmap for the data processing infrastructure.

What We're Looking For:

• Extensive experience building and scaling big data pipelines and architectures from scratch
• Deep expertise in big data frameworks (Hadoop, Spark) and the JVM stack (Java, Scala)
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to write efficient, high-quality code
• Experience with entity recognition and NLP techniques a plus
• Proven track record delivering results and driving projects in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work with data scientists, analysts and product teams
• Passion for leveraging huge datasets to power valuable insights.

Ideal Background:

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering roles.
• Experience working with very large datasets and distributed systems
• Familiarity building data pipelines at large tech companies or data-driven organizations
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field.

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The base salary range across the U.S. for this role is between $133,800-$200,700. In addition, this role is eligible for commission. Black Duck offers a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education. 

The base salary range across the U.S. for this role is between $133,800-$200,700. In addition, this role is eligible for commission. Black Duck offers a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education. 

Firaxis Games is seeking a motivated Lead Programmer to direct our development team. We're looking for an engineer with a strong foundation in software development who enjoys working on a diverse set of challenging problems. In this role, candidates will serve as a domain expert in Unreal Tech. We need candidates that bring a passion for teaching, sharing and mentoring. Firaxis is a highly collaborative and iterative environment. The ideal candidate will possess the ability to communicate easily and effectively with fellow coders, designers and artists.

What You Will Do

• Consult with departments to understand project goals and requirements.

• Provide direction and advice on technical decisions, architecture, and workflow optimization to ensure successful Unreal5 Engine integration

• Set high standards for code quality, performance, and maintainability

• Assist team to resolve difficult technical issues and address Unreal Engine-related challenges

• Design and implement modifications, reorganizations, extensions, and optimizations to existing code base.

• Actively maintain skill-set and knowledge base by keeping track of the latest innovations from the industry.

• Lead optimization across several platforms.

Who We Think Will Be A Great Fit

• 3+ years of engineering experience using Unreal Engine

• Some leadership capacity

• A broad knowledge of Unreal's internals

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills

• Highly proficient in C++ programming language.

• Comfortable with multi-threading, templates, and optimizing

• Strong problem solving and debugging skills.

• Experience with multiple languages, frameworks and tools a plus.

• Self-motivated and passionate about games.

• Good team communication skills, able to translate rough ideas into concrete implementations

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.

Please note that 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use 2K.com accounts.

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Firaxis Games is seeking a motivated Lead Programmer to direct our development team. We're looking for an engineer with a strong foundation in software development who enjoys working on a diverse set of challenging problems. In this role, candidates will serve as a domain expert in Unreal Tech. We need candidates that bring a passion for teaching, sharing and mentoring. Firaxis is a highly collaborative and iterative environment. The ideal candidate will possess the ability to communicate easily and effectively with fellow coders, designers and artists.

What You Will Do

• Consult with departments to understand project goals and requirements.

• Provide direction and advice on technical decisions, architecture, and workflow optimization to ensure successful Unreal5 Engine integration

• Set high standards for code quality, performance, and maintainability

• Assist team to resolve difficult technical issues and address Unreal Engine-related challenges

• Design and implement modifications, reorganizations, extensions, and optimizations to existing code base.

• Actively maintain skill-set and knowledge base by keeping track of the latest innovations from the industry.

• Lead optimization across several platforms.

Who We Think Will Be A Great Fit

• 3+ years of engineering experience using Unreal Engine

• Some leadership capacity

• A broad knowledge of Unreal's internals

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills

• Highly proficient in C++ programming language.

• Comfortable with multi-threading, templates, and optimizing

• Strong problem solving and debugging skills.

• Experience with multiple languages, frameworks and tools a plus.

• Self-motivated and passionate about games.

• Good team communication skills, able to translate rough ideas into concrete implementations

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.

Please note that 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use 2K.com accounts.

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As a Principal Engineer on our Advertising, Company Intelligence, and Intent team, you’ll help design and implement the core systems that power our real-time marketing platform. From high-throughput ad infrastructure to large-scale identity resolution and intelligent systems enhanced by LLMs, push the boundaries of scale, intelligence, and speed—and deliver real-world business impact.

You’ll be joining a team with a broad range of ambitious, technically deep projects—from APIs that process tens of billions of events per day, to new buyer intent algorithms powered by LLMs, to a unified B2B identity graph. Depending on your strengths and interests, you’ll be matched to the initiatives where you can have the greatest impact.

This is a high-growth, high-ownership environment operating at the edge of what’s possible in modern software engineering, data infrastructure, and applied AI.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build distributed systems that process, enrich, and respond to billions of behavioral events per day in real time
• Develop high-performance APIs and services that support advertising, identity, and intent features across the Marketing Platform
• Leverage machine learning and large language models (LLMs) to analyze behavioral data, classify content, extract signals, and enable intelligent decision-making
• Build intelligent agents using frameworks like LangGraph or MCP to reason over data and power user-facing insights
• Design and operate data pipelines using tools like Kafka, Kinesis, and ClickHouse to support both streaming and batch workloads
• Drive quality, performance, scalability, and observability across all systems you own
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to deliver customer-facing features and internal tooling
• Contribute to technical leadership and mentorship of teammates

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of backend, data, or infrastructure engineering experience, or equivalent impact and leadership.
  
  
• Strong experience in at least one of the following:
• Distributed systems engineering (e.g., building low latency high and throughput APIs, scalable microservices, event processing pipelines)
• Big data infrastructure (e.g., streaming, warehousing, low-latency storage at scale)
• Applied AI/ML, including use of LLMs for extraction, classification, or reasoning tasks
  
  
• Proficiency in one or more core languages: Java, Go, Python
• Solid grasp of SQL and large-scale data modeling
• Familiarity with databases and tools such as: ClickHouse, DynamoDB, Bigtable, Memcached, Kafka, Kinesis, Firehose, Airflow, Snowflake

AI-Native Development Mindset

• Comfortable using LLMs as part of your development workflow—whether via tools like Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, or others—to boost productivity, explore architecture ideas, and rapidly prototype.
  
  
• Skilled at designing and implementing LLM-powered systems such as RAG pipelines, agent frameworks (e.g., LangGraph), or intelligent workflows that reason across large datasets in real time.

Bonus Points

• Experience in ad tech, real-time bidding (RTB), or programmatic systems
• Background in identity resolution, attribution, or behavioral analytics at scale
• Contributions to open source in ML, infrastructure, or data tooling
• Strong product instincts and a passion for building tools that drive meaningful outcomes

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NetSage's mission is to help our customers achieve their missions by providing superior cyber services. We seek talented professionals who are interested in doing meaningful, mission-focused work for the U.S. Federal Government. We are a growing Company that puts our employees first and offers excellent pay and world-class benefits. We do not hire contract by contract; instead, we offer multiple job options and career progression for our employees. We realize that our website and job descriptions may be a little vague and that's on purpose because of the customers we support. Please connect with us using our Contact Us page if you have any questions about any of our job-openings.

Job Description:

We are seeking a Principal Full Stack Software Engineer to develop, maintain, and enhance complex and diverse software systems. In this role, you will support complex, multifaceted software systems—such as data-intensive analytics platforms, advanced algorithmic solutions, large-scale data processing environments, real-time applications, and business information systems—based on defined and documented requirements. The ideal candidate for this role will have front-end and back-end web development experience. Please consider applying if you meet the following qualifications.

Required Qualifications:

• TS/SCI with polygraph.
• A Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in computer science or a related STEM discipline and twelve (12) years or relevant experience is required. In lieu of a degree, sixteen (16) years of relevant experience is acceptable. 
• Front-end web development language experience in JavaScript, JavaScript XML (JSX) in React, and Typescript
• Back-end development language experience in Node.js/JavaScript, Rust, Python, and shell script.
• Micro-services architecture experience/ familiarity to inlcude:
  
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm Charts
  • Micro-Services deployment patterns
  • Service-mesh
  • Multi-site applications
  • Load Balancing topologies
  • Cloud Migration
• Experience or familiarity with the following tech stack architecture:
  • NiFi, Testing frameworks (JEST), Grafana, InfluxDb, Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL, Apache, Superset, RabbitMQ/Kafka/Message Fabrics, Ansible/Salt, Terraform, Web-Sockets, and Neo4j
• Experience analyzing user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements.
• Experience designing and coding new software or modifying existing software to add new features. 
• Experience debugging existing software and correcting defects.

NetSage's mission is to help our customers achieve their missions by providing superior cyber services. We seek talented professionals who are interested in doing meaningful, mission-focused work for the U.S. Federal Government. We are a growing Company that puts our employees first and offers excellent pay and world-class benefits. We do not hire contract by contract; instead, we offer multiple job options and career progression for our employees. We realize that our website and job descriptions may be a little vague and that's on purpose because of the customers we support. Please connect with us using our Contact Us page if you have any questions about any of our job-openings.

Job Description:

We are seeking a Principal Cloud Software Engineer to develop, maintain, and enhance complex and diverse Big-Data Cloud systems based upon documented requirements. In this role, you will directly contribute to all stages of back-end processing, analyzing, and indexing. The ideal candidate for this role will offer subject-matter expertise in Cloud Computing and the Hadoop Eco-System including implementing Java applications, Distributed Computing, Information Retrieval (IR), and Object-Oriented Design. Please consider applying if you meet the following qualifications.

Required Qualifications:

• TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance.
• A Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in computer science or a related STEM discipline and eleven (12) years or relevant experience is required. A Master of Science (M.S.) degree and ten (10) years of experience or in lieu of a degree, sixteen (16) years of relevant experience is also acceptable. 
• Relevant experience qualifies as professional experience in cloud software engineering on projects with similar Big-Data systems. A Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer certification may be substituted for one (1) year of relevant experience.
• At minimum, the following cloud-related experience is required:
  • Two (2) years of Cloud and/or Distributed Computing Information Retrieval (IR).
  • One (1) year of experience implementing code that interacts with Cloud Big Table.
  • One (1) year of experience implementing code that interacts with Cloud Distributed File System.
  • One (1) year of experience implementing complex MapReduce analytics.
  • One (1) year of experience implementing code that interacts with Cloud Distributed Coordination Frameworks.
  • One (1) year of experience architecting Cloud Computing solutions.
  • One (1) year of experience debugging problems with cloud-based Distributed Computing Frameworks.
  • One (1) year of experience managing multi-node cloud-based installations.
• Experience in Network Management, Virtualization (VMWare or VirtualBox), and/or Cloud Computing.
• Experience securing cloud-based and distributed applications through industry standard techniques such as Firewalls, PKI Certificate, and Server Authentication with experience in corporate authentication service(s). 
• Experience in object-oriented design and programming to include Java, Eclipse, or similar development environments.
• Experience with MAVEN and RESTful web services.
• Experience with CentOS, Linux/RedHat, or configuration management tools such as Subversion, ClearQuest, or Razor.

Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC)  is searching for a Technical Lead - Program Principal Engineer to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time and onsite at the NIH-NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work.

As a Program Principal Engineer, you will be directing Technical Leads and Teams to ensure architectural cohesion and collaboration within the program; for assigned projects, you will be responsible for all phases of software development, from vision, architecture, and design, to implementation, production rollout, and operations. You will collaborate with the Program Head, Technical Program Manager, and other Program Principal Engineers across programs, forming close relationships to enable effective communication, encouraging staff growth and knowledge sharing, guiding technological innovation, and ensuring sustainable software development practices and service delivery. Your contributions will have direct impact on prominent offerings, supporting researchers in finding, browsing, and downloading genomic data, such as virus and pathogen detection resources that help researchers study common diseases, combat pandemics (SARS-CoV-2, H1N1), and provide surveillance to prevent outbreaks from food-borne, hospital-acquired, and other clinically infectious pathogens.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage the efforts of the program's software development team in an Agile framework
• Work with a diverse group of scientists, bioinformaticians and other developers across the center to implement efficient bioinformatics algorithms
• Provide work estimates for development tasks
• Ensure on-schedule delivery of software solutions for the product line and organization
• Manage the development lifecycle of software for assigned products
• Research new technologies in pursuit of advancing the goals of the program and product line
• Direct and coordinate the actions of the development team
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team
• Act as a liaison between the development team and program leadership
• Create and maintain technical documentation related to the product line
• Ensure high code quality for software development tasks

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate may or may not be a United States citizen and must have at least a Bachelor or Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Engineering or equivalent work experience.

We are looking for an individual with:

• A proven track record of managing an Agile software development team
• Experience working with highly available, high traffic web applications
• The ability to translate business requirements into executable software development tasks
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• The ability to troubleshoot technical and staffing roadblocks and mitigate resource risks

Required Skills:

• Software development experience in a Linux environment (5+ Years)
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Java, C, C++)
• Experience working with Cloud data storage and processing platforms (AWS, GCP)
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (BASH, Python)
• Experience working with SQL databases
• Ability to work with common structured documents (XML, JSON, CSV)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, unit tests, integration, and regression testing
• Strong presentation and collaboration skills
• Experience coaching team members

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with genetic and biological data
• Experience with software packaging and distribution, including Docker or other containerization mechanisms
• Experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL database technology
• Experience with workflow engines, particularly scientific workflows and DataOps

Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC)  is searching for a Senior C++ Software Developer to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time and onsite at the NIH-NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work.

NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the nation’s premier biomedical resource, is seeking a software developer to help deliver biological sequence annotation and data curation infrastructure for the nation’s foremost sequence and biomedical literature repositories. Sites at NCBI, a part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), see four million daily users searching for gene sequence data, biomedical journal citations, and a wide array of other information that directly impacts biomedical research and public health. NCBI’s annotation pipelines not only serve these diverse expert communities – they actually drive new life sciences discoveries, ranging from medical health (viruses and pandemics, genetic diseases, cancer) to public health (food safety monitoring, antimicrobial resistance, viral outbreaks), to basic research topics in computational biology, bioinformatics and microbial diversity, and many more.