Lead Software Engineer

Sealing Technologies, a Parsons Company • Full-time • Columbia, Maryland, United States • $152k - $186k / year • 7h ago

Location:Columbia, MD
Type: Hybrid
Travel: 15%

About Us:
Sealing Technologies, a Parsons Corporation company, is a trusted partner in providing powerful edge computing hardware and defensive cybersecurity solutions to protect the Federal Government and private enterprises. Our goal is to support the federal government, our allies, mission partners, and private industries in accomplishing their cybersecurity and defense objectives efficiently and securely through cutting-edge hardware, engineering, and integration services.

Position Overview:
SealingTech is looking for an experienced and talented Lead Software Engineer to join our Software Products Team. In this role, you will guide a team of skilled engineers in developing Operator X, a next-generation, AI-powered application for defensive cyber operations. This platform leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) and custom agents to provide an intuitive conversational interface for interacting with and commanding cyber tools.

As the Lead Software Engineer, you will serve as the technical authority for this mission-critical platform, driving its technical vision and architectural evolution. The product is in active, rapid development, adapting to new and challenging production environments. Your core responsibility will be to lead the engineering team in continuous expansion and refinement of the platform's capabilities, driving the architectural design to enable this adaptation, from enhancing our core appliance to supporting enterprise private clouds. You will be a hands-on leader, mentoring team members, championing best practices within our Agile framework, and ensuring the delivery of a robust, secure, and mission-ready product.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and innovation.
Drive the architectural design of our containerized microservices application (FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL, Redis) to ensure scalability, resilience, and security in edge deployments and enterprise private cloud environments while staying current in the rapidly evolving AI space.
Engage in hands-on development, code reviews, and complex problem-solving to set the standard for code quality and engineering rigor.
Collaborate and partner with product managers and customers to translate mission requirements into actionable technical user stories and a well-defined roadmap.
Champion Agile Scrum best practices, facilitate technical discussions, and ensure the team meets sprint commitments.
Identify and mitigate technical risks, making key decisions to keep the project on track and aligned with strategic goals.

Minimum Qualifications:

6 years of experience in systems engineering (server hardware), systems architecture (Windows, Linux, ESXi), network security architecture, software development, and virtualization.
8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership position.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent work experience
Expert proficiency in Python and experience with modern web frameworks, preferably FastAPI.
Proven experience designing, building, and deploying containerized software applications.
Experience with Agile development methodologies (Scrum) and associated tools (Jira, Confluence).
Strong knowledge of the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), Git version control, and CI/CD principles.
Hands-on experience designing on-prem distribution methods for edge and cloud deployments.
Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs), agent-based systems, or other AI/ML application development.
U.S. Citizenship

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in cybersecurity, either security product development and/or security operations tools like Elastic, Splunk, Security Onion, etc.
Experience with system hardening and security compliance, particularly with STIGs.
Working knowledge of front-end technologies, specifically React.
Experience working on cybersecurity solutions within a DoD or Federal Government context.