# Principal Software Engineer

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Oakton, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $136,000 - $184,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GDIT is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our team. This challenging and interesting software engineering and development position is a chance to participate in the development and operation of a high-performance big data system, and join a longstanding, stable program consisting of a team of individuals using defined Agile software principles and practices.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will perform software requirements analysis, design, development, testing, maintenance and participate in research of an operational big data system. The Principal Software Engineer focuses on software and application development and programming to deliver solutions to complex problems. You will tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients.

US Citizenship is required. Active Secret clearance is preferred. If a candidate does not have an active clearance, GDIT will sponsor the clearance upon contingent offer. The work must be performed onsite (no remote work).

**Responsibilities:**

- Demonstrated understanding of software engineering concepts, principles and applications

- Experience with database technologies, SQL, ETL, indexing and performance

- In-depth understanding of object-oriented and functional programming, design patterns, data structures and algorithms

- Proven Modern C++ experience (Modern C++ versions 11/14/17/20) applied in a Linux development environment

- Experience with parallel and multi-threaded programming and multi-process applications

- Proven experience in scripting languages including Bash, Ruby and Python

- Proven experience with very large databases/big data/enterprise data warehouses

**Preferred Skills:**

- Experience with Azure Cloud development

- Experience with memory architectures (NUMA) and caching

- Working knowledge of techniques for improving performance such as profiling, avoiding memory allocation/de-allocation, parallelization and algorithms

- Experience with data modeling and NoSQL database technologies such as MongoDB

**Benefits:**

- 401K with company match

- Comprehensive health and wellness packages

- Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career

- Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications

- Cutting-edge technology you can learn from

- Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holiday

The likely salary range for this position is $136,000 - $184,000.

## Skills

### Required
- C++ STL
- Data Warehouse ETL
- Extract Transform Load (ETL)
- Parallel Programming
- Scripting Languages
- Modern C++
- Linux development environment
- multi-threaded programming
- multi-process applications
- Bash
- Ruby
- Python
- database technologies
- SQL
- ETL
- indexing and performance
- object-oriented and functional programming
- design patterns
- data structures and algorithms

### Nice to have
- Azure Cloud development
- memory architectures (NUMA) and caching
- profiling
- avoiding memory allocation/de-allocation
- parallelization and algorithms
- data modeling
- NoSQL database technologies such as MongoDB

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