Senior Software Engineer, Observability

Summary

Join Second Front Systems' Product team as a Senior Software Engineer on the Observability team, contributing to the development and delivery of high-quality software for national security use-cases. You will collaborate with a distributed team, building infrastructure and monitoring a Kubernetes-based platform. Responsibilities include agile development, system integrations, and cross-functional engineering. The ideal candidate possesses five years of software engineering experience, expertise in microservices, and experience with Grafana. This role requires U.S. citizenship and offers competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• Five years of Software Engineering experience with problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Experience with the full product development lifecycle
• Proven ability to break down complex problems and discover, diagnose, and fix any bugs or issues
• Understanding of systems development concepts (i.e. REST APIs, Authentication, Event driven architectures)
• Strong understanding of microservices
• Experience with Grafana
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with the team members in a remote environment
• U.S. citizenship

Responsibilities

• Work with a distributed team building infrastructure and monitoring of our kubernetes-based platform
• Agile development: writing, reviewing, maintaining, testing, and deploying code
• Develop integrations with other applications and systems within our cloud ecosystem
• Communicate with end-users, third-party partners, UX designers, product managers and company leadership to keep key stakeholders informed about the development of our cloud platform
• Engineer solutions cross functionally with platform, customer, and security teams
• Participate in code reviews, mentor others, and evangelize best coding practices
• Design and implement architecture based on product and feature requirements
• Navigate and maintain productive and authentic relations with Second Front’s customers and cloud-operations, growth, and executive teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Active security clearance or ability to obtain a Secret-level security clearance
• Previous experience working in national security
• Experience working and developing with the technologies we use
• Experience working in a startup environment
• Passionate about the software engineering craft
• Ability to adopt, create and iterate on changing procedures
• Knowledge of DevSecOps tools and practices

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• 100% Healthcare, vision and dental coverage
• 401(k) + 3% company contribution
• Wellness perks (Fitness classes, mental health resources)
• Equity incentive plan
• Tech + office supplies stipend
• Annual professional development stipend
• Flexible paid time off + federal holidays off
• Parental leave
• Work from anywhere
• Referral Bonus