Senior Ground Software Engineer; Cyber Compliance

Senior Ground Software Engineer (Compliance Exposure) Overview

We’re hiring a Senior Ground Software Engineer to join a backend/platform engineering team building mission‑critical systems in a highly regulated environment. This is an engineering‑first role focused on designing, building, and maintaining production software systems and infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong backend engineering experience and exposure to environments operating under standards such as CMMC, SOC2, FedRAMP, Gov Cloud, or similar compliance frameworks
. This is not a pure cybersecurity role – the focus is on building scalable systems while understanding how security and compliance requirements impact software development and operations.

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and distributed systems.
• Write and review production‑level code.
• Contribute to cloud infrastructure and Dev Ops workflows.
• Support CI/CD, automation, and deployment processes.
• Collaborate with engineering and security stakeholders to ensure systems align with compliance requirements.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and operational support.

• Strong backend software engineering experience.
• Hands‑on experience with:
• Go (Golang) – preferred.
• Or another strongly typed language (Java, C++, Rust, C#).
• AWS/cloud infrastructure experience.
• Experience building and owning production applications/services.
• Familiarity with regulated/compliance‑driven environments.

• Terraform / Infrastructure‑as‑Code.
• Docker / Kubernetes.
• CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Gov Cloud, FedRAMP, CMMC, SOC2, or NIST‑aligned environments.
• Distributed systems / microservices experience.

• Backend engineer first, not security‑first.
• Comfortable operating in fast‑paced technical environments.
• Strong ownership mentality.
• Ability to balance engineering velocity with compliance/security expectations.

• Engineers from:
• Government.
• Defense.
• Healthcare.
• Fintech.
• Other regulated industries.
• Exposure to:
• CMMC.
• SOC
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• FedRAMP.
• Gov Cloud.
• NIST.

• Go (Golang).
• AWS.
• Backend systems / APIs.
• Distributed systems.
• Terraform, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, Python.

• ~60% coding.
• ~20% reviewing/standards.
• ~20% infrastructure/Terraform.

• Strong backend engineer first.
• Has built applications/services end‑to‑end.
• Comfortable in compliance‑heavy environments.
• Can work closely with infrastructure/security teams.
• Ownership mentality.

• Pure Dev Ops engineers.
• Pure cybersecurity engineers.
• No Go experience.
• No strongly typed language background.
• Pipeline/infrastructure‑only experience.
• No application ownership.

• What production systems/services have you owned?
• What’s your strongest language day‑to‑day?
• How much Go experience do you have?
• Have you worked in regulated/compliance‑heavy environments?
• Have you worked alongside security/compliance requirements in production systems?
• What AWS services are you most comfortable with?
• Any Terraform/IaC exposure?

• US Citizen required.
• Hybrid role (Lanham/DC area).
• Backend‑heavy despite “full‑stack” wording.
• Supporting mission‑critical/defense‑related systems.