Cyber Platforms Software Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton
- Location
- Annapolis Junction, MD
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Mid
- H-1B history
- 9 approvals (FY2023)
- Posted
- 23h ago
Skills
About this role
Cyber Platforms Software Engineer The Opportunity: We build sof tware for large, fast-changing cyber problems where speed, scale, and complexity demand better tools. As a Senior Sof tware Engineer, you’ll work across production systems used by operators, analysts, and cyber experts today, while also helping develop new capabilities from early technical concept to deployed product. On our team, you’ll move across the stack through back-end services, data systems, user-facing tools, automation, containers, and cloud infrastructure. You’ll bring judgment to ambiguous problems, make practical technical tradeoffs, and work close to users to understand where sof tware holds up or breaks down in real-world use. What You’ll Work On: Build sof tware that helps operators make sense of fragmented, high-volume cyber data. Make complex cyber workflows more reliable, observable, and repeatable at enterprise scale. Take new cyber capabilities from early technical concept to prototype and deployed product. Apply AI, analytics, and decision-support techniques to reduce analyst burden and improve operator decision-making. Develop orchestration and human-in-the-loop systems that help cyber teams coordinate, prioritize, and act. This role is for engineers who want to build sof tware that is used now and help define the next generation of cyber capabilities. Join us. The world can’t wait. You Have: 3+ years of experience building, shipping, and supporting production sof tware through sof tware engineering in a professional environment 2+ years of experience building back-end services, APIs, data workflows, or platform components with Python Experience working with Docker or Kubernetes, containers, and reproducible development or deployment workflows Experience building, deploying, or operating sof tware on cloud platforms such as AWS Experience designing or operating production systems that use databases, APIs, queues, caches, background jobs, or distributed-system patterns Experience owning technical delivery for a feature, service, product area, or engineering workstream Ability to obtain a Secret clearance Bachelor’s degree in CS, Computer Engineering, or Information Systems Nice If You Have: 2+ years of experience building front-end applications with React, TypeScript, or modern front-end frameworks Experience building sof tware for cyber operations, cyber defense, threat detection, security operations, or related environments Experience working with cyber ranges, digital twins, adversary simulation, vulnerability research, reverse engineering, or detection engineering Experience with operational data such as logs, tele met ry, network data, endpoint data, or security events Experience building AI-enabled, agentic, or LLM-based applications that were deployed to users or integrated into production systems Experience supporting defense, intelligence, national security, R & D, or other mission-focused customers Master’s degree in a CS, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Data Science, AI, or technical field Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information .
Compensation
At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you