Full Stack Software Engineer; Golang Focus

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 DoW.

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.

• Design, develop, test, and maintain full-stack software capabilities supporting GEMSTONE platform services.
• Ability to submit a sample Go application you created to solve a unique problem.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services primarily using Go (Golang).
• Build and maintain RESTful, gRPC, GraphQL, and event-driven APIs.
• Contribute to the design and evolution of GEMSTONE's API management platform and service architecture.
• Support development of microservices deployed within Kubernetes environments.
• Integrate applications with identity, authorization, and access control services.
• Contribute to API catalogs, service registries, artifact repositories, and workflow automation capabilities.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, design reviews, code reviews, and sprint demonstrations.
• Support CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and software release activities.
• Troubleshoot application, integration, and performance issues across the platform stack.
• Collaborate with platform engineers, cybersecurity engineers, product owners, and government stakeholders.
• Develop technical documentation and architecture artifacts.

• Ability to learn complex software ecosystems and rapidly become proficient in new platforms and technologies.
• Ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 1–5 years of professional software development experience.
• Experience with Go (Golang) in a professional or established open-source setting.
• Strong understanding of Go routines and idiomatic design patters in Go.
• Experience developing RESTful APIs, backend services, or microservice-based applications.
• Exper…