Software Engineer – Level 1
Amentum· Defense & Space· Jan 27, 2026 · 9mo agoPosted 273 days ago
Fort Gordon, GA
In office
Full-time
Mid
$130K–$175K est.
4+ years exp
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Ghost Signal:
Open since January 27, 2026 — 273 days, and still accepting applications.
Job description
Your Impact:
This position is part of a very agile team of systems and software engineers who will analyze existing capabilities as well as design and develop new solutions that will integrate with other products within the organization and across the agency baseline. Working in a dynamic and agile environment, systems engineers will capture how capabilities work, determine the use cases they satisfy, perform testing and validation, and provide artifacts required to make software development successful. Software developers will work within an existing CI/CD pipeline, performing back-end, UI, and/or full-stack development to create capabilities that perform geolocation data processing at scale.
Responsibilities:
Work with a high-performing software development team in an agile, DevOps environment
Analyze capabilities of existing products to develop enhancements primarily using Python
Perform development and integration of multiple user interfaces and/or numerous services for software that performs data processing at scale
Conduct development, testing, validation, deployment, maintenance, and Tier 3 support for operational software
Design and implement software solutions that can be integrated with core services and across new baselines
Apply accepted agile software development practices to test and document the code base
Other Responsibilities:
Safety - Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment. As appropriate, each employee is responsible for completing all training requirements and fulfilling all self-aid/buddy aid responsibilities, participating in emergency response tasks and serving on safety committees and teams.
Quality - Quality is the foundation for the management of our business and the keystone to our goal of customer satisfaction. It is our policy to consistently provide services that meet customer expectations. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the Amentum Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable Amentum Quality System documents and customer contracts. Each employee must read and understand his/her Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction responsibilities.
Procedure Compliance - Each employee must read, understand and implement the general and specific operational, safety, quality and environmental requirements of all plans, procedures and policies pertaining to his/her job.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and compliant work environment, Amentum is a drug-free workplace and requires all personnel to comply with company drug and alcohol policies as a condition of employment. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the drug screening process. Please note that this may include pre-hire screening for marijuana, as well as other federally controlled substances due to Amentum’s role as a federal contractor and trusted partner to the US Government.
Here’s What You’ll Need:
Ability to work collaboratively in a high-performing, fast-paced, CI/CD environment
Experience developing back-end services in Python
Experience writing web user interfaces using modern Java, Javascript, and/or HTML
Experience with Active MQ, Rest, NoSQL and/or elastic databases
Experience validating capabilities against requirements, writing and executing test cases, and capturing test results
Experience working with the Atlassian tool suite to track and maintain requirements (i.e., JIRA & Confluence)
Experience developing in Linux
Clearance Required:
TS//SCI with poly
Minimum Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
4 years of additional SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree
Minimum Years of Experience:
7 years’ experience as a SWE, in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required
Preferred:
Experience working with dynamic and/or interactive map software
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