Principal Software Engineer; AHT - R10233235

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At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people’s lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation’s history – from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon.

We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they’re making history.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems (NGDS) is seeking software engineers to develop and maintain capabilities in support of a new defense program named CHAIN (C4

ISR Holistic Analysis of Networks). CHAIN has been designated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to become the standard C4

ISR intelligence and analysis tool across the DoD intelligence community (DoD IC). CHAIN is a cloud‑based Dev Sec Ops  platform based on Platform One’s Big Bang, featuring the latest Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects and tools. Candidates should have a track record and interest in working with cloud‑compatible technologies to solve complex challenges and deliver results for today’s modern warfighter and C4

ISR intelligence analysts. The CHAIN program is managed from the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio.

• One of the following:
  • A high school diploma with a minimum of 9 years of software development experience
  • A bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 5 years of software development experience
  • A master’s degree with a minimum of 3 years of software development experience
• Full stack web development experience
• Experience writing software applications using Go, Java, or Python
• Experience working with web applications and front‑end frameworks such as Vue.js, React, or Angular
• Interest in full stack development of cloud‑based microservice applications
• Familiarity with Agile development processes such as Scrum and Kanban
• Strong interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with technical teams
• Ability to prioritize and adjust tasks to accomplish project results
• Ability to comprehend and analyze complex problems and develop solutions
• U.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance

• Experience with the following technologies:
  • Java script, Typescript, and Vue.js
  • Graph and document No
    
    SQL databases such as Arango
    
    DB and Dgraph
  • GeoJSON and CesiumJS
  • Go (programming language)
  • Gitlab
  • Istio
  • Grafana
  • Helm
  • Elastic
  • HTML
  • CSS, SCSS
  • Software security tools such as Trivy and Sonar Qube
• Experience developing containerized software applications using Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes
• Experience designing and developing REST APIs
• Experience working with semantic knowledge graphs, ontologies and RDF triple stores
• Experience working with tree data structures and traversal algorithms such as depth‑first search and breadth‑first search
• Experience working with medium to large scale, cloud‑based microservice applications
• Knowledge or experience of the zero‑trust security model and PKI‑based authentication using X.509 certificates
• Dev Ops experience or interest in using Dev Ops to support software development
• Experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) using Gitlab Runners

The salary range for this position is $103,600 – $155,400, subject to factors such as scope, responsibilities, experience, education, skills and market conditions.

Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, discretionary bonuses, and potentially Long Term Incentives for VP/Director levels. In addition, Northrop Grumman offers health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company‑paid holidays, and paid time off for vacation and personal business.

Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit  U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.