Principal Software Engineer / Sr. Principal Software Engineer @ Northrop Grumman - San Jose, CA

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission!

We are looking for you to join our team as a Principal Software Engineer or Sr. Principal Software Engineer based out of San Jose, CA. As a Principal Software Engineer or Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman you will have a challenging and rewarding opportunity to be a part of our Enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through the use of Model-based Engineering, DevSecOps and Agile practices we continue to evolve how we deliver critical national defense products and capabilities for the warfighter. Our success is grounded in our ability to embrace change, move quickly and continuously drive innovation. The successful candidate will be collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.

What You’ll get to Do:

Be part of our Agile development team using modern development practices in a DevOps environment with an emphasis on Continuous Integration. Work on C++ primarily, may also work on Java and/or Python programming. Potentially be involved in mostly new development for a micro-service event driven architecture using Docker Containers, Kubernetes, Helm charts and AWS services. Also get to utilize the Atlassian product suite, including Jira, Bitbucket, Bamboo, and Confluence. Perform maintenance and sustainment engineering for existing baselines which may require programming in C/C++. Overall, there is a wide range of software subsystems you may work on based on a combination of experience and interests, such as, back-end mathematical, signal processing, scientific algorithms, computer security, and front-end web-based GUIs. Our small but highly energized Agile Scrum team has a significant software effort on a growing program with a large impact. Please consider joining us and thrive within our fast-paced software development team! We pride ourselves in our experience and highly supportive environment.

This is a great opportunity for a self-starter to work in a dynamic environment with real world technical content supporting a number of tools and systems. There is plenty of opportunity for career advancement into leadership positions.

This position may be filled as a Principal Software Engineer or a Sr. Principal Software Engineer

Basic Qualifications for a Principal Software Engineer:

• Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 5 years related years of experience. An additional 4 years of experience in lieu of degree may be considered.

• Experience with Agile software development using C++ and/or any other object oriented language such as, Java or Python, in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment

• Knowledge of object oriented design and software lifecycles

• Experience with version control software

• Must have an Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance

Basic Qualifications for a Sr. Principal Software Engineer:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 9 years related years of experience. An additional 4 years of experience in lieu of degree may be considered.

• Experience with Agile software development using C++ and/or any other object oriented language such as, Java or Python, in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment

• Knowledge of object oriented design and software lifecycles

• Experience with version control software

• Must have an Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• STEM degree preferred, such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, etc

• Experience with supporting operational systems and distributed systems

• Experience with working in Virtualized Environments (VMs, AWS Cloud Instances)

• Experience with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket)

• Previous exposure to working with ground systems (scheduling, tasking, antennas, working with hardware interfaces)

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