Senior Engineer

Dayton, OH💼 Full-time💰 $120,000–$120,000🗓 2026-08-28 → 2026-10-03

Core

Build large-scale data infrastructure and platforms for the U.S. Department of Defense to enhance operator awareness and decision-making.

Role type

Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer

Builds

Data platforms, ETL pipelines, and cloud-native applications for defense agencies

Domain

Defense technology, Data Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Apache Kafka, Flink, Kafka Streams, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Python, GoLang, ETL processing, Cloud-native development, Software architecture

Preferred skills

Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentbit, Kibana, Loki, Helm Charts (via careerplan.io/jobs/6147209004-senior-engineer-at-raft)

Technologies

Kafka, Flink, Pinot, Java, Scala, Kubernetes, Kafka Streams, Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentbit, Kibana, Loki, Helm, Maven, Gradle, NPM

Responsibilities

Build data infrastructure and platforms using diverse data frameworks; Build Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) pipelines; Architect, develop, and implement large scale data applications

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

About raft

Raft builds mission-critical data, AI, and operational platforms that process high-volume sensor, operational, and mission data across multiple classification levels. These platforms must run reliably in cloud-hosted, classified on-premises, disconnected, and edge environments where security, repeatability, and customer trust are non-negotiable.