Senior Software Engineer

About The Team

STR’s Intelligence Division researches and develops advanced analytics and machine learning-based solutions to solve challenging problems related to national security. Our team consists of passionate and motivated engineers with advanced degrees in engineering, computer science, mathematics, and data science, who are seeking opportunities to use their deep technical knowledge and creativity to tackle some of the hardest problems that our customers face. Our projects span multiple different data modalities and incorporate advanced algorithms, deep learning, and statistical techniques to uncover patterns in social media, structured and unstructured text, time series, geospatial, and imagery data, and must operate under challenging constraints not typically found in the commercial world. The tools and technologies we develop have real world impact and US Government analysts use them to extract and enrich intelligence information around the globe.

The Role:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will leverage your skills in systems and software development to operationalize advanced statistical machine learning algorithms and support production-level systems. You will work closely with other software engineers and researchers to design cutting‑edge solutions to challenging problems impacting national security including classification, anomaly detection, forecasting, and much more. You will also interact with customers to understand requirements and use cases and apply feedback to respond to their most critical problems. Positions are available in both Woburn, MA and Arlington, VA. Due to the nature of our work, applicants should expect to primarily work onsite.

What You Will Do:

• Collaborate to create and maintain software for data pipelines, algorithms, storage, and access
• Build infrastructure for extraction, transformation, and loading using SQL and AWS technologies
• Architect and implement capabilities for integrating technologies and orchestrating workflows
• Build analytic tools that utilize data pipelines to provide actionable insights into customer requests
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements
• Monitor data for changes that could significantly impact system performance
• Develop and execute plans to mitigate issues, maximize uptime, and ensure system performance

Who You Are:

• Active Top Secret security clearance, for which U.S. citizenship is needed by U.S. Government
• Motivated collaborator looking to work with a large and distributed team
• Ability to lead and direct development initiatives from inception to prototype and production
• BS, MS, or PhD in a related field or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in one or more high level programming languages, like Python
• Experience with AWS cloud services, SQL, and a variety of databases
• Experience working with large datasets, building and optimizing pipelines and architectures
• Experience in navigating and contributing to complex, large code bases

Even Better (you should have several of these, but all of them are not required):

• Possession of Security+ or other certifications
• Experience developing processes for data transformation and workload management
• Experience with development of REST APIs, access control, and auditing
• Experience with DevOps pipelines
• Experience using the following software/tools:
• Big Data tools: e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, ElasticSearch
• Data Lakes: e.g. Delta Lake, Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg
• Distributed Data Warehouse Frontends: e.g. Apache Hive, Presto
• Data pipeline and workflow management tools: e.g Luigi, Airflow
• Dashboard frontends: e.g Grafana, Kibana
• Stream-processing systems: e.g. Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
• Big Data tools: e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, ElasticSearch
• Data Lakes: e.g. Delta Lake, Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg
• Distributed Data Warehouse Frontends: e.g. Apache Hive, Presto
• Data pipeline and workflow management tools: e.g Luigi, Airflow
• Dashboard frontends: e.g Grafana, Kibana
• Stream-processing systems: e.g. Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
• Pay Information
• Full-Time Salary Range: $134,000 - $184,000

The salary range listed is based on external market data. Offers are based on factors, such as but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, education, training, key skills/critical skills, security clearances, and prevailing market and business conditions.

STR is a growing technology company with locations near Boston, MA, Arlington, VA, near Dayton, OH, Melbourne, FL, and Carlsbad, CA. We specialize in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security in: cyber; next generation sensors, radar, sonar, communications, and electronic warfare; and artificial intelligence algorithms and analytics to make sense of the complexity that is exploding around us.

STRis committed to creating a collaborative learning environment that supports deep technical understanding and recognizes the contributions and achievements of all team members. Our work is challenging, and we go home at night knowing that we pushed the envelope of technology and made the world safer.

STR is not just any company. Our people, culture, and attitude along with their unique set of skills, experiences, and perspectives put us on a trajectory to change the world. We can't do it alone, though - we need fellow trailblazers. If you are one, join our team and help to keep our society safe! Visit us at for more info.

STRis an equal opportunity employer. We are fully dedicated to hiring the most qualified candidate regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy), marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any portion of the employment process, email us at [email protected] and provide your contact info.

Pursuant to applicable federal law and regulations, positions at STR require employees to obtain national security clearances and satisfy the requirements for compliance with export control and other applicable laws.