CareerPlan

Staff Engineer

Colorado Springs, COFull-time$170k–$200k2026-11-06 → 2026-11-10
HybridCitizens onlySecurity clearance required

Core

Architect, develop, and implement end-to-end cluster and application lifecycles for a real-time data platform processing over a billion events daily for the Department of Defense.

Role type

Staff Engineer (Infrastructure & Data Platform)

Builds

Real-time data aggregation and operational picture systems for DoD operators

Domain

Defense / Distributed Data Systems / Cloud-Native Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Pinot, Java, Scala, AWS, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana), Logging (Fluentbit, Kibana, Loki), Helm Charts, Python, GoLang

Preferred skills

Active Secret or Top Secret clearance, Istio, Maven, Gradle, NPM, Yarn, Enterprise Cloud applications support

Technologies

Kafka, Kafka Streams, Pinot, Java, Scala, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentbit, Kibana, Loki, Helm Charts, GitLab, Istio

Responsibilities

Architect and implement Kubernetes or Docker solutions in Cloud and on-premises; Develop and implement CI/CD pipelines; Implement GitOps for Software Delivery; Work with clients on cluster provisioning and maintenance; Configure monitoring and logging solutions.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC