Full Stack Software Engineer; Storage & Data Platform Focus

Title Title

Belong. Connect. Grow. with K !

K ’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

• Innovative Projects:
  At K , you'll be working on cutting-edge projects that support the Department of the Air Force’s most mission-critical operations. Our team is pushing the boundaries of open-source development, Dev Sec Ops  with state-of-the-art CI/CD pipelines, containerization, Kubernetes, Terraform, Zarf, and innovative API management and database design. You'll be contributing to systems designed for a modeling and simulation SaaS platform that provides dynamic compute power, access to tools, and collaboration capability through a model that will revolutionize the future of military research and development.
• Collaborative Environment:
  Our team thrives in a dynamic, mission-driven environment where our employees work shoulder-to-shoulder with software engineers, Dev Sec Ops  architects, product leads, mission experts, and defense specialists. We embrace Agile methodologies and secure development practices to ensure rapid iteration, compliance alignment, and seamless integration across modular systems. Our culture prioritizes clarity, precision, and innovation—fostering open communication, iterative refinement, and deep collaboration to deliver software and documentation that’s not only compliant, but strategic and impactful across DoD.
• Impactful Work:
  Your work here will directly support the Department of the Air Force in advancing defense technology. You’ll be at the forefront of innovations, creating new paradigms for providing access to compute power, modeling and simulation tools, and data sharing across organizations to the Department of the Air Force and broader Department of Defense.

K  is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer with a strong interest in storage architecture, distributed storage systems, and cloud-native data platforms to support the development and sustainment of the GEMSTONE platform. This position will help design, deploy, and manage storage solutions supporting modeling and simulation applications, digital engineering environments, warfighter AI/ML workloads, user data, and platform services across both cloud and on-premises deployments.

The successful candidate will work closely with platform engineers and Dev Sec Ops  teams to implement scalable, secure, and resilient storage services within (or alongside) Kubernetes-based environments and help shape GEMSTONE's long-term storage architecture for classified and unclassified deployments.

• Design and implement software solutions supporting platform storage and data persistence services.
• Develop backend services that manage datasets, digital artifacts, metadata, user content, and workflow outputs.
• Support design and operation of distributed storage solutions for Kubernetes-based environments and on-premises environments
• Assist with design and implementation of hybrid (cloud-native and on-premises) storage architectures within Kubernetes environments.
• Build and maintain web applications that allow users to discover, manage, publish, and access data assets.
• Support development of APIs for data access, artifact publication, metadata management, and storage lifecycle operations.
• Support persistent storage capabilities for interactive developer and engineering environments.
• Develop automation supporting backup, replication, migration, archiving, and recovery workflows.
• Collaborate with platform engineers to integrate storage services with identity, authorization, auditing, and monitoring solutions.
• Participate in architecture reviews, Agile development activities, code reviews, and testing efforts.
• Support deployment and validation through CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to technical documentation and operational procedures.

• Location:
  
  Onsite or Hybrid-Dayton, OH
• Travel Requirements:
  None
• Working Hours:
  
  Standard

Required:

• Bache…