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Senior Software Engineer

Belay Technologies · Columbia, MD

TS/SCI clearance required · polygraph named

Posted 2026-09-29 · Verified live 2026-10-02

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About this role

Belay Technologies has been voted Baltimore Business Journal's (BBJ) Best Places to Work 2019, runner up in 2020 and a finalist in 2021! 

Belay Technologies is seeking a and Senior Software Engineer (SWE3) to join our intel team. You will be a member of the Mission Intelligence (MI) team supporting a variety of data engineering, analysis, and automation efforts. The MI team maintains a business intelligence platform supporting data-driven decisions in the enterprise. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure the availability of this mission-essential platform. You will also contribute to the MI team as a software engineer and analytic developer where you will design, develop, and integrate solutions involving the analysis of large data sets to establish mission cognizance and deliver mission-centric insights.
 

Responsibilities:

  • Incrementally incorporate site reliability engineering principles into the existing operational platform
  • Maintain and advance a mission-essential business intelligence platform
  • Elicit requirements from stakeholders, gather and analyze available data, and develop solutions for delivering key metrics
  • Develop analytics to combine, normalize, and enrich large data sets
  • Design and implement ETL workflows to convert and normalize data
  • Augment the platform with new tools or technologies
  • Provide guidance to more junior software engineers and data scientists
  • Communicate clearly through written documentation.

Candidates should have the following qualifications:  

  • TS/SCI with Full Scope polygraph is required.
  • 12 yrs., B.S. in a technical discipline or 4 additional yrs. in place of B.S.

Candidates are required to have the following skills:

  • Strong customer service mindset
  • Production-grade software development experience in Java and Python
  • Experience or familiarity with site reliability engineering (SRE) principles
  • Familiarity with customer authentication and authorization platforms and standards
  • Experience with productizing software as containers and deployment with Docker/Kubernetes
  • Confidence with Git and Gitlab for software version control
  • Confidence with basic to intermediate Linux System Administration tasks
  • Willingness to contribute to internal and customer-facing written documentation
  • Nice to Haves: Familiarity with Apache NiFi
  • Familiarity with Elasticsearch and Kibana.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes
  • Knowledge of map-reduce analytic environments (e.g., Hadoop)
  • Knowledge of end-to-end SIGINT collection and analysis systems
  • Experience with production CNO capabilities and operations
  • Experience with frontend UI development

Perks and Benefits: 

  • 8 weeks paid leave - 4 weeks of personal leave, 3 Yay! days, take off on your birthday,11 paid holidays and optional leave up to 6 days through Belay's volunteer program 
  • 10% matching in 401(k) contributions vested on day one 
  • $5,000 annual training/tuition 
  • Student Loan Repayment Program 
  • 100% company funded HSA 
  • Rich medical coverage (100% coinsurance) 
  • Dental coverage including orthodontia 
  • Up to $420,000 in life insurance, premiums 100% company funded 

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