Senior Software Systems Engineer

Space Dynamics Laboratory

Job ID: 10096

Date Posted: November 4, 2026

Join the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) team, where you'll contribute to groundbreaking innovations We are seeking applicants for a senior technical leader. This role combines software engineering, systems engineering, and infrastructure expertise with robust customer engagement and technical leadership.

This role will maintain a broad, working understanding of environment, including its applications, operating systems, virtualization platforms, container infrastructure, and supporting services. They will evaluate system capabilities and limitations, identify technical risks and dependencies, and help translate customer objectives into practical solutions.

As a technical adviser to our customer, the selected candidate will lead technical discussions, clarify system capabilities and configuration options, coordinate across engineering and operations teams, and maintain alignment between customer expectations and technical realities. They will be capable of investigating technical issues and engaging in implementation when needed, while keeping their primary focus on system-level understanding, technical direction, and mission outcomes.

We are looking for a technically versatile leader who can connect software, infrastructure, and operations; exercise technical judgment; and guide teams without needing to be the deepest specialist in every technology.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, engineering,



or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 15+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related technical field, with increasing responsibility
- Broad technical understanding of complex software systems and their supporting infrastructure, including the interactions between applications, operating systems, virtualization, containers, and services
- Working knowledge of Linux environments, particularly RHEL, and familiarity with enterprise virtualization or container platforms
- Experience guiding technical execution and coordinating across software, infrastructure, and operations teams
- Strong customer-facing communication skills, including experience leading technical meetings, advising stakeholders, and explaining complex technical concepts and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to translate customer objectives into technical priorities while maintaining a system-level perspective
- Sound technical judgment, initiative, and the ability to balance hands-on problem-solving with broader technical leadership
- U.S.



citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance with the DoW and required program access approvals
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% as required by the program

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with VMware and enterprise virtualization environments
- Experience with Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, and containerized applications
- Familiarity with application architecture and development in Python, Java, C++, or other programming languages
- Experience with system administration, platform operations, or infrastructure troubleshooting
- Familiarity with system architecture, requirements management, integration, verification and validation
- Understanding of networking, cybersecurity, and DoW mission operations environments
- Experience with CI/CD, automated deployments, infrastructure as code, or configuration management
- Familiarity with messaging technologies such as gRPC, Kafka, or ZeroMQ
- Experience coordinating across developers, system administrators, infrastructure engineers, vendors, and customer organizations
- Familiarity with Agile development and tools such as Git, Jira, and Confluence
- Active security clearance

What Success Looks Like

- Maintains a reliable, system-wide understanding of the software and the environment and how its components interact
- Leads customer discussions, clarifies expectations, and explains what the system can and cannot do
- Identifies technical risks, dependencies, and gaps before they become lar

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