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Clarity · 2 days ago

Senior Principal Software Engineer / Team Lead New

Herndon, VA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Clarity Innovations, LLC is a trusted national security partner dedicated to safeguarding national interests and delivering innovative solutions for the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. The Senior Principal Software Engineer / Team Lead will be responsible for leading a team to build solutions, providing mentorship, and ensuring technical excellence while managing team dynamics and project delivery.

AnalyticsCloud InfrastructureSoftware

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Assess, maintain, and nurture a healthy team culture

Meet one-on-one with team members monthly at a minimum

Collaborate with each team member’s manager to provide effective mentorship and establish tailored development plans

Provide feedback on team members’ performance to managers

Work with program manager and talent acquisition team to ensure the team is staffed with appropriate technical talent

Verify onboarding process is defined and followed for all new members

Ensure team members understand their roles and responsibilities

Apply team members’ technical strengths to corresponding work whenever possible

Establish and assess team members’ technical performance expectations

Promptly resolve performance issues in coordination with a team member’s manager

Keep the team on target; communicate priorities and ensure their tasking aligns with it

Implement Clarity’s engineering processes, standards, and quality expectations for your team, including tailoring and documenting deviations where appropriate

Review your team's code, provide feedback, and ensure technical excellence in delivery

Raise any issues impacting delivery, such as staffing, budget, or scope, to the PM

Ensure your team defines and adheres to design, development, versioning, release, and deployment workflows

Oversee your team’s documentation of design and architecture decisions

Establish and communicate the 'product' vision

Represent the team in external, technical engagements

Ensure the team’s backlog is well-documented, groomed, and prioritized

Provide time for team to work on enablers like maintenance tasks and automation for building, testing, and deploying

Deliver regular demonstrations of technical progress to customer

Identify opportunities for on-contract growth based on observed gaps in

Act as a key contributor to proposals within or related to the program's scope and customer base

Qualification

KubernetesDevOps practicesCloud environmentsTerraformPythonGoTechnical mentorshipAgile methodologyCommunication skillsInterpersonal skills

Required

Strong written and oral communication skills

Strong interpersonal skills to effectively engage with various stakeholders from customers to senior leadership

Experience providing formal and informal technical mentorship to teammates

Proficient with Kubernetes (K8s) deployment strategies, cluster lifecycle (deployment, troubleshooting, scaling), and container orchestration

Experience writing code in a general-purpose language such as Python or Go

Experience implementing modern DevOps practices and tools (e.g., CI/CD, IaC, GitOps) in production deployment workflows

Proficient in containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Podman)

Familiarity with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) utilities (Crossplane, Backstage)

Experience architecting Kubernetes application deployments (using primitives such as, Pods, Services, Deployments, Namespaces, etc)

Experience deploying, managing, scaling Kubernetes workloads (e.g. Helm, Flux, Argo)

Experience configuring Kubernetes networking (e.g., Services, Ingress, NetworkPolicies)

Experience implementing or managing a Kubernetes Service Mesh (e.g., Istio, Linkerd)

Experience with Kubernetes cluster administration, including node management, upgrades, and troubleshooting

Proven experience architecting and managing production environments in major cloud providers like Azure, AWS, or GCP

Deep understanding of serverless compute (e.g., Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, or Google Cloud Functions) and managing distributed logic

Experience managing cloud object storage (Azure Blob, S3)

Extensive experience using Terraform to manage complex, multi-service environments, including writing reusable modules, managing state at scale, and implementing "infrastructure as code" best practices

Demonstrated ability to lead a team through the "refactor / replatform" phase of moving services from VMs to modern cloud-native architectures

Experience translating customer requirements into actionable user stories/features

Experience breaking down large features into demonstrable and valuable milestones

Experience prioritizing and delegating tasks for at least one other team member

Experience contributing to technical proposals or similar products (e.g., technical white papers, rough order of magnitude estimates)

Preferred

Active US TS/SCI security clearance with CI polygraph or higher

More than 10 years of industry experience in a software engineering or DevOps role

Experience communicating with customers and end-users

Experience delivering and managing capabilities in operational / production environments

Experience leading software design and architecture

Experience evaluating technologies and making informed decisions

Strong technical understanding of programming languages and tools in use

Strong understanding of at least one Agile methodology (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)

Company

Clarity

Clarity Innovations designs, develops, and deploys force-enhancing software that links human ingenuity to powerful computing and makes our country and our world a better, safer place.

Founded in 2011

Columbia, Maryland, USA

201-500 employees