Software Engineer - TS/SCI with Polygraph

About the role

• Type of Requisition: Regular
• Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph
• Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph
• Public Trust/Other Required: None
• Job Family: Software Engineering

Job Qualifications

Skills

Design, Message Queuing, Microservices Architecture, RESTful APIs, Software Solutions:

• Certifications: None
• Experience: 5 + years of related experience
• US Citizenship Required: Yes

About the role

Transform technology into opportunity as a Software Engineer Senior at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career.

Meaningful Work and Personal Impact

As a Software Engineer Senior, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the Intelligence Community. You will play a crucial role in developing and operating mission critical capabilities directly impacting national security.

• Design and develop event-driven applications using message queues and streaming platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, or similar) to orchestrate distributed AI/ML workflows
• Build containerized microservices in Python with experience deploying to Kubernetes environments, including writing Dockerfiles, managing dependencies, and optimizing container images
• Develop integrations with cloud services for storage, compute orchestration, and serverless functions (experience with AWS S3, Lambda, Step Functions, or equivalent services in GCP/Azure)
• Implement dynamic workflow orchestration and state management for multi-step AI/ML pipelines, coordinating execution across multiple containerized services
• Work with relational and NoSQL data stores including query optimization, schema design, and connection pooling (Postgres, Opensearch, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, or similar)
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services for internal and external integrations, including proper error handling, authentication, and rate limiting
• Write production-quality Python code following best practices including testing (unit, integration, e2e), logging, error handling, and performance optimization
• Debug and troubleshoot distributed systems in production Kubernetes environments, using observability tools to trace requests across services and identify bottlenecks
• Collaborate with platform engineers on application deployment strategies, resource requirements, health checks, and scaling configurations
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and structured logging within applications to support operational visibility and rapid incident response

What You’ll Need to Succeed

Bring your engineering expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. The Software Engineer Senior must have:

• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
• Technical skills: Demonstratable relevant technical experience
• Security clearance level: TS/SCI with Polygraph
• US citizenship required
• Role requirements: Ability to work collaboratively with Agile/Scrum delivery teams in hybrid environments

Gdit Is Your Place

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
• #WeAreGDIT
• #JET
• #GDITEnhanced2026
• #VA_2026Alumni

Pay and benefits

The likely salary range for this position is $144,500 - $195,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
• Travel Required: Less than 10%
• Telecommuting Options: Hybrid
• Work Location: USA VA Herndon

Total Rewards at Gdit

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.

To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.

To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.