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From the employer's careers site First seen 25 Oct 2026

Software Engineer Principal

GDIT Annapolis Junction, MD On-site senior full-time

Salary

$175,950 - $238,050 per year

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Description

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

The Software Engineer shall be responsible for developing, sustaining, and troubleshooting GHOSTGEM's software suite of applications including DINO and possibly future capabilities as mission needs arise. Software development activities include implementation, testing, and integration with other COTS, GOTS, and FOSS products, packages, and libraries.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop, sustain, and troubleshoot software applications
  • Implement, test, and integrate software products
  • Collaborate with other teams to deliver mission-critical projects

Requirements:

  • Bachelor of Science degree
  • 8+ years of related experience
  • TS/SCI w/ Polygraph security clearance
  • Experience using Linux CLI and Tools
  • Experience developing scripts using Bash
  • Recent Python (3.x) software development experience
  • Experience with Rust programming concepts
  • Experience with NoSQL databases including MongoDB
  • Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and containers
  • Experience with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes
  • Experience creating Helm Charts to deploy containerized services on Kubernetes
  • Familiar with Messaging Frameworks including RabbitMQ
  • Familiar with CI/CD principles, methodologies, and tools including GitLab CI
  • Familiar with IaC principles, methodologies, and tools such as Ansible
  • Experience using Git Source Control System

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
  • 401K with company match
  • Competitive pay and paid time off
  • Full flex work weeks where possible
  • Paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
  • Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • PostgreSQL
  • Atlassian Tool Suite including Jira and Confluence

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