Northrop Grumman · 5 hours ago
Sr. Principal Software Engineer (AHT) - R10220245
Northrop Grumman is a leading defense company that provides innovative systems impacting lives globally. They are seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to develop and maintain capabilities for a defense program named CHAIN, which serves as a standard C4ISR intelligence and analysis tool across the U.S. Department of Defense.
AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain capabilities in support of the CHAIN program
Work with cloud-compatible technologies to solve complex challenges
Participate in full stack development of cloud-based microservice applications
Communicate effectively with technical teams and prioritize tasks to accomplish project results
Analyze complex problems and develop solutions
Qualification
Required
A high school diploma with a minimum of 12 years of software development experience
A bachelor's degree with a minimum of 8 years of software development experience
A master's in degree with a minimum of 6 years of software development experience
Full stack web development experience
Experience writing software applications using Go, Java, or Python
Experience working with web applications and front-end frameworks such as Vue.js, React, or Angular
Interest in full stack development of cloud-based microservice applications
Familiarity with Agile development processes such as Scrum and Kanban
Strong interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with technical teams
Ability to prioritize and adjust tasks to accomplish project results
Ability to comprehend and analyze complex problems and develop solutions
U.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance
Preferred
Experience with Javascript, Typescript, and Vue.js
Experience with Graph and document NoSQL databases such as ArangoDB and Dgraph
Experience with GeoJSON and CesiumJS
Experience with Go (programming language)
Experience with Gitlab
Experience with Istio
Experience with Grafana
Experience with Helm
Experience with Elastic
Experience with HTML
Experience with CSS, SCSS
Experience with software security tools such as Trivy and Sonarqube
Experience developing containerized software applications using Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes
Experience designing and developing REST APIs
Experience working with semantic knowledge graphs, ontologies, and RDF triplestores
Experience working with tree data structures and traversal algorithms such as depth-first search and breadth-first search
Experience working with medium to large scale, cloud-based microservice applications
Knowledge or experience of the zero-trust security model and PKI-based authentication using X.509 certificates
DevOps experience or interest in using DevOps to support software development
Experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) using Gitlab Runners
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
Northrop Grumman is an aerospace, defense and security company that provides training and satellite ground network communications software.
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.7BKey Investors
U.S. Department of DefenseNASA
2025-05-27Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2024-01-29Post Ipo Debt· $2.5B
2023-12-20Grant· $72M
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