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Principal Software Engineer

Job in Fort Meade, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA
Listing for: Benz Technology Inc
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-10-17
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Software Engineer, C++ Developer, Python, Software Architect
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 190000 - 250000 USD Yearly USD 190000.00 250000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Fort Meade, MD TS/SCI with Polygraph Full-Time $190,000 – $250,000 Actively hiring

Active TS/SCI clearance required. Benz Technology is unable to sponsor security clearances. U.S. citizenship required.

About the Role We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to design, develop, and deliver high-performance software capabilities in support of advanced analytics mission objectives. You’ll work directly with stakeholders to translate complex requirements into scalable, production-ready software solutions. This role goes deep on low-level systems programming, binary analysis, and algorithm development.

Responsibilities Design, develop, test, debug, and maintain software applications supporting mission requirements

Analyze customer needs and translate conceptual designs into scalable software architectures

Develop efficient algorithms leveraging data structures, dynamic programming, heuristics, and modeling techniques

Work at the operating system level including file I/O, system APIs, and memory management

Develop advanced tools for binary analysis, shellcode detection, function identification, and reverse engineering of compiled software

Analyze and modernize legacy codebases

Develop and validate software prototypes to explore and prove out technical solutions

Required Qualifications Proficiency in Python for software development and scripting

Ability to read and understand C/C++ and x86 Assembly

Experience with software architecture design and operating system internals

Hands-on experience with compilers, debuggers, and low-level development concepts

Familiarity with executable program analysis, system APIs, and memory management

Strong algorithm development skills across data structures, dynamic programming, and heuristics

Desired Qualifications

Experience with malware analysis and shellcode detection

Background in reverse engineering of compiled software

Familiarity with network protocol analysis

Why engineers join Benz
15% employer 401(k) — vested day one, no match required
28 paid days off per year $7,500 annual tuition reimbursement $2,500 training & development budget
28 years in business — our engineers stay through recompetes
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