Staff Software Engineer

Shift5 is a rapidly growing data and cybersecurity scale-up. We specialize in capturing and analyzing serial bus data in real time, providing anomaly detection and operational intelligence required to act. Our insights provide real-time alerting and historical trends to assure mission readiness and cyber survivability, and our innovative technology enables military systems to deter adversaries, protect warfighters, and maintain their competitive edge. We are a collaborative, passionate and driven cadre of cyber security experts. Our engineers are multidisciplinary, and our team is dynamic. We’re a growing company focused on helping our customer’s fleets run smarter and safer by capitalizing on mountains of data resting right about the wheels. Come join us.

Our Values :

Embrace Truth and Integrity: Base decisions on data, foster open dialogue, and uphold unwavering integrity.

User-Centric Focus: Prioritize user needs to guide our actions and resource allocation.

Collaborative & Adaptable: Collaborate for excellence, learning from failures and driving iterative improvements, recognizing every decision's significance.

Shift5 is seeking a full-time Staff Software Engineer to join our growing team. In this role, you’ll build and deploy high-impact features into Shift5’s product suite. You’ll play a critical role in designing, building, and delivering the technology stack that:

Serves the user’s digital touch points into the Shift5 product ecosystem

Composes the middleware that drives the core engine of our solutions

Sustains the backend components that source, analyze and enrich the vast amounts of Operation Technology-based data captured by our hardware platform

You’ll operate in a team based environment with engineers, product managers, program managers and designers to conceive, implement and shape major features. Engineers are key contributors in shaping this design process and you’ll be a major factor in generating high-impact products that literally save lives. This role resides in our Product Engineering team and reports directly to our Vice President, Engineering.

In this role you will be expected to:

Interpret requirements and design specifications to develop, debug, test, and maintain software solutions deployed against a broad array of platforms, environments, and cloud solutions

Facilitate architectural designs that meet business requirements as well as security and quality standards

Maintain and extend a backend application that provides data to customer-facing UIs

Develop GoLang-based data processing pipelines

Mentor and coach other team members and peers to drive continuous improvement

Actively participate in our Agile development processes

Maintain current knowledge of relevant technologies and developments in the software engineering space

Support the team in developing standards for high quality code that is testable, maintainable, extensible, secure, and performant

We're looking for someone who is/has:

BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent

8+ Years of experience in software development

Strong proficiency in at least two (2) of the following: Python (preferred), Golang (preferred), Java, JavaScript (preferred), C, C++

Experience leading a team of software engineers and instilling best practices

Experience building high quality software solutions, demonstrating advanced skill in systems and software architecture design

Deep understanding of software engineering practices and concepts

Demonstrated experience with REST API’s, TDD, AWS, CI/CD, Docker, Google ProtoBufs, Linux

Prior experience with CANbus, MIL-STD-1553, SAE J1939, ASCB, ARINC 429 would be a bonus

US Citizenship

Active (or ability to hold/obtain a) US Government Top Secret security clearance

Compensation & Benefits:

Competitive salary and stock options in a fast-growing startup

Employer-paid medical, dental and vision coverage

Health Savings Account with annual employer contributions

401k with employer contributions

Life Insurance

Uncapped paid time off policy

Flexible work & remote work policy

Tax-deferred public transit benefits with Metro SmartBenefits (DC/MD/VA)

We are committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that embraces the diversity of our people and represents the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives and ways of solving problems. We strive to attract and retain talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.

Shift5 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, disability, age, marital status, ancestry, projected veteran status, or any other protected group or class.

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