Northrop Grumman Australia · 1 month ago
Principal/Sr. Principal Software Engineer Space Force
United States-Colorado-Schriever AFB
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$104K/yr - $155K/yr
5+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense technology company, and they are seeking a Sr Principal Software Engineer to support their Front Range Operations and Sustainment Team (FROST) program. The role involves developing and maintaining software for satellite support services, including real-time operations and launch support.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Maintain software used to establish connections for status & control of ground equipment
Provide Java software development. Perform all aspects of software engineering support required to implement systems
Also maintain software that handles scheduling of on-orbit contacts, and orbit calculations
Write software that supports launch operations with trajectory calculations for the SpaceX and ULA vendors
Provide assistance for team members primarily on Java development and utilizing the Spring Boot framework
Develop React-based user interfaces for operator interaction
Assist writing microservices that interact with a variety of vendor interfaces for data processing
Deploy new containerized applications in Kubernetes environments
Assist with new customer requests by extending and enhancing existing capabilities and creating new ones where needed
Qualification
Required
Level 3: Bachelor's degree with 5 years of experience OR a master's and 3 years' experience OR a High School diploma / equivalent with 9 years' experience may be considered in lieu of degree
Level 4: Bachelor's degree with 8 years of experience OR a master's and 6 years' experience OR a High School diploma / equivalent with 12 years' experience may be considered in lieu of degree
Work on-site at Schriever SFB, near Colorado Springs, CO
TS/SCI CI poly - Open to candidates without an active poly clearance. Please note, if you are selected without an active poly you will receive a contingent offer and cannot start until your poly clearance is complete. This process can take 18+ months
Experience and proficiency with Java
Knowledge with Spring Boot framework or other similar experience
Preferred
Knowledgeable with IDE for Java software development or other similar experience
Experience with Gitlab or other similar experience and Git distributed version control system
Experience Software design and development
Experience with Java build systems
Ability to collaborate with internal and external developers and integrating their components into a larger framework with NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB
Experience with NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB
Experience with Docker/Kubernetes
Experience using/writing Ansible automation scripts
Experience with C++ programming language
Working knowledge of SQL databases
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company
Northrop Grumman Australia
Northrop Grumman Australia is the Australia-based arm of Northrop Grumman Corporation and committed to generating long-term prosperity, investing in advanced Research & Development, sovereign and exportable Intellectual Property, high-quality jobs and long-term technology leadership across the Commonwealth.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase