Digital software engineer

Description

Leidos' Office of Technology's Digital Engineering team has several opportunities for experienced Software Engineers looking for remote work or working out of any major Leidos location. This role gives team members a chance to develop products and services and facilitate cross-functional collaboration within the Defense Systems Sector. The Digital Engineering team known as HERMES is a service-oriented organization that works with programs and project teams to systematically improve efficiency, eliminate and prevent pain points, and bring modern digital practices to the hands of the tactical day-to-day employee. Under the Director of Digital Engineering, HERMES is responsible for architecting and implementing large-scale Digital solutions, independent reviews of digital practices, and support of teams implementing new practices. The team plays a pivotal role in fostering teamwork, creativity, and technological advancement in digital engineering initiatives, driving competitive advantage and value creation for the organization.

Selected candidate will have experience in full-stack software development and able to assist in the solution design implementation particularly in the data layer, application, and data integration (API solutioning), application coding, and UI/UX. You will have opportunities to adapt the Digital Architecture solution to various defense system programs within Space, Maritime, Land, and Air domains. You will get to hone your soft skills through collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams including systems engineers, other software developers, and solution architects to ensure project goals align, and program deadlines are met.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Aid in process improvement initiatives by researching emerging digital engineering technologies and providing recommendations for integration.

• Document technical solutions, workflows, and processes to ensure knowledge sharing and adherence to standards.

• Participate in meetings, prepare reports, and present technical insights to team members and stakeholders.

• Assist with troubleshooting, performance analysis, and optimization of digital engineering systems.

• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and adherence to best practices in software design and architecture.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer engineering or related discipline with minimum of 5 years of professional experience in software development. Additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

• 3+ years of experience with application and data layer programming.

• Experience with developing and implementing ETL processes in a cloud-based AWS environment (data extraction, parsing, cleansing/curation, translation/transformation, tagging, loading, replication, and distribution).

• Experience with developing custom codes to ingest, curate and exploit new and existing data sources.

• Proven soft skills in working with various personality types.

• US citizenship is required and able to obtain Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Secret clearance preferred.

• Experience with Cloud architecture, integration, and automation.

• Experience with Restful APIs, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Prefect, Minio, Kafka, NiFi, Accumulo, PostgreSQL, Python, R, Java, C/C++, data management and analytics tools, Jenkins/Ansible, AWS S3 and SQS solutions.

• Familiarity with developing and deploying CI/CD pipeline and tools.

• AWS related certifications desired.

We're not looking for perfectly polished resumes or perfect fits. We're looking for people who break limits, ask hard questions, and don't wait to be told what's next. At Leidos, we're not following the roadmap - we're redrawing it.

Original Posting:

November 12, 2025

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $104,650.00 - $189,175.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit .

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.