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Principal Software Engineer-December 2024
Reston
Dec 13, 2025
ABOUT LEIDOS
Leidos is a Fortune 500® information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security
501 - 1,000 employees
Consulting
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About Principal Software Engineer

  Description

  We have an IMMEDIATE NEED for a Principal Software Engineer to provide Agile DevOps support to mission critical systems. As a Software Engineer on this program, you will have the opportunity to build strong systems, software, and cloud environments and provide operations and maintenance for critical systems. The candidate will provide technical expertise and support in the design, development, implementation and testing of customer tools and applications. Based in a DevOps framework, participate in and/or direct major deliverables of projects through all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding and unit testing.

  Primary Responsibilities:

  Participate in software programming initiatives to support innovation and enhancement, using Java, JavaScript, Python, SpringBoot, Hibernate.

  Developing and directing software system validation and testing methods using Junit and Katalon

  Develop and integrate custom developed software solutions to leverage automated deployment technologies

  Develop, prototype and deploy solutions within Commercial Cloud Solutions leveraging Infrastructure platform services

  Coordinate closely with team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to ensure User Story alignment and implementation to customer use cases

  Analyze (though proof of concept, performance, and end-to-end testing) and effectively coordinate Infrastructure needs driven by developed software to meet customer mission needs

  Support the Agile software development lifecycle following Program SAFe practices

  Use industry leading DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Unix bash scripting

  Document and Perform systems software development, including deployment of build artifacts across different environments leveraging GitFlow constructs

  Communicate key project data to team members and build team cohesion and effectiveness.

  Leverage Atlassian tool suite like JIRA and Confluence to track activities

  Apply and identify best practices and standard operating procedures

  Create innovative solutions to meet the technical needs of customers.

  Basic Qualifications:

  Proficient with common Agile practices, service-orientated environments, and development practices

  In-depth use and experience with Java, Spring and C2S.

  In-depth experience in the software development lifecycle, with experience delivering within DevOps toolsets/practices

  Direct experience utilizing software testing performance tools, such as Junit/Katalon

  In-depth experience with scripting languages, such as Python, Bash

  In-depth experience working in an Agile development environment and tempo

  In-depth experience with development in Commercial Cloud Platforms (ex, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)

  Experience with development leveraging cloud data services (ex: S3, RDS, EFS)

  Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

  Well versed with using version control systems

  Well versed with using issue/problem tracking systems

  **Candidate must have a Bachelor’s degree with 12 or more years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 or more years of relevant experience. Additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.

  **Candidate must be US Citizen.

  *Candidate must have active TS/SCI with Polygraph*

  Preferred Qualifications:

  Experience with structured analysis and design methodologiesPay Range:

  Pay Range $122,200.00 - $220,900.00

  The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

  REQNUMBER: R-00125695

  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.

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