Senior Software Engineer - Top Secret

Sunayu, LLC

$120K — $150K *
Aerospace & Defense
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's, Master's, or equivalent degree in a quantitative field.
  • 12+ years of experience in software engineering or data science.
  • Active Top Secret clearance with TS/SCI eligibility.
  • Experience collaborating with hybrid teams on analytical platforms.
  • Proven creative problem-solving skills in technical settings.

Responsibilities

  • Develop distributed backend services to support enterprise AI operations.
  • Collaborate with teams to address complex technical challenges.
  • Utilize advanced analytics techniques in software solutions.
  • Integrate AI, cybersecurity, and observability into software development.
  • Build and deploy user-friendly analytical platforms.

Benefits

  • 3 Medical Plan Options
  • Dental and Vision coverage
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
  • Life and AD&D Insurance
  • Short- and Long-Term Disability coverage
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Training and Educational Assistance up to $5,000 per year
  • Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • 11 Federal holidays
  • 401k plan with up to 6% match, fully vested immediately
Full Job Description
Category: Software Engineering
Travel Required: No
Remote Type: No

Sunayu, LLC is looking for a Software Engineer who will support the development of distributed backend services, APIs, and platform microservices supporting enterprise AI operations.

  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of analysts, engineers, and developers to solve complex challenges and deliver innovative, production-ready algorithms and platforms.
  • Apply cutting-edge techniques in statistical analysis, predictive analytics, entity resolution, graph analytics, explainable AI, and operational analytics.
  • Contribute to the integration of software development, AI, DevSecOps, data engineering, platform engineering, cybersecurity, and observability in a fast-paced, engineering-centric environment.


Basic Requirements:
  • Bachelor's, Master's, or equivalent graduate degree in a quantitative or analytical field (Software Development, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Physics, Computational Social Science, etc.). Additiona/Relevant experience may be substituted for a degree.
  • 12+ years of experience in software engineering, data science, analytics, or quantitative intelligence analysis, developing analytics and AI/ML solutions and demonstrating progressive technical development and outcomes. (4+ years with a Master's).
  • Active Top Secret clearance and eligibility for TS/SCI with Polygraph.
  • Demonstrated experience collaborating with hybrid teams to research, build, and deploy complex, user-friendly analytical platforms.
  • Track record of creative problem solving, active learning, and mission-focused outcomes.
  • Ability to analyze and assess software development or data acquisition requirements and determine optimum, cost-effective solutions.


Experience with the following:
  • Backend microservices
  • Distributed systems
  • API development
  • Event-driven architectures
  • Kubernetes-native application development
  • Cloud-native engineering
  • Preferred Languages
  • Rust
  • Go
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • Django


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience supporting military or intelligence community customers.
  • Familiarity with Azure/C2S, hardware platforms (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs), and advanced analytical methodologies (social network analysis, supply chain analysis, NLP, classification algorithms, image processing).
  • Familiarity using git, svn, JIRA, or other version control technologies
  • Familiarity with the following technologies
    • NATS
    • Kafka
    • Redis
    • ClickHouse
    • OpenTelemetry
    • OpenRouter
    • LiteLLM


Career Development

We support and encourage our team members to continue their professional growth by providing company-reimbursed training and continuing education of up to $5,000 per year. We also participate in many industry conferences and events where we share our expertise and experiences.

Pay Rate

Salary range considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills, as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.

Benefits
  • 3 Medical Plan Options
  • Dental and Vision
  • FSA, DCFSA, HSA
  • Life/AD&D Insurance
  • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Training and Educational Assistance
  • Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • 11 Federal holidays
  • 401k plan with up to a 6% match (100% immediate vesting)


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