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Principal Engineer

AMPSIGHT

Principal Engineer

Ashburn, VA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Ampsight is looking for a Principal Engineer with 15+ years of experience and an active TS/SCI clearance.

    We need a hard-charging technologist who possesses a firm grasp of cloud, analytics and machine learning that wants to be our engineering team's go-to-guy.

    We honestly don't expect to bump into anyone who checks-the-box on each and every one of the following job qualifications, but we would like to find someone who has:

    • Real-world machine learning development experience;
    • Solid experience designing, configuring, and optimizing AWS cloud infrastructure;
    • A deep understanding of security principles;
    • Extensive experience leading troubleshooting, capacity planning, systems analysis, and performance analysis activities;
    • 5+ years of experience with Linux/Unix development or systems administration;
    • Extensive experience writing production-quality code in multiple languages (+1 for Scala, Python, Go or any functional language);
    • Experience with DevOps;
    • In-depth knowledge of infrastructure operations and principles;
    • Experience designing systems architecture to achieve the right balance of performance, risk, and cost;
    • Solid written and oral communication skills;
    • A desire to mentor and coach engineers;
    • Experience leading agile development teams (+1)
    • AWS Certifications (+1)

    Job Requirements:

    • 15+ years of experience designing & developing software systems
    • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field (+1 for advanced degree)
    • An active TS/SCI clearance