Principal Software Engineer (remote)

Raytheon Intelligence and Space (RIS) is looking for a Principal Software Engineer for our EOSDIS Evolution and Development team based out of Riverdale, Maryland. Full time telecommuting and/or remote is available for this position.
 
Life with Raytheon Intelligence and Space

In this role, you will work with an amazing team of engineers, on the EED-3 program that supports NASA in its mission to provide scientists and other users access to data from NASA’s Earth science missions. More specifically, you will be working with the NGAP team, which has developed and is maintaining a cloud-based development platform to host all EOSDIS cloud applications.
 What You'll Get to Do:
 
As an Principal Software Engineer  on the Raytheon Technologies EED-3 team,  you will ensure adherence to operational agreements and polices (including response times), compliance to program and NASA standards and requirements (including Section 508 compliance), leveraging of industry best practices for automation and scalability of assets, and implementation of issue detection and alerts. 
  
You Bring These Qualifications: 

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and at least 8  years of prior relevant experience or an advanced Degree in a related field and 5 years of prior relevant experience.
• Recent experience with in-depth knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) 
• Experience supporting Cloud based infrastructure and operations automating processes, build software tools, and create infrastructure-as-code solutions in a Cloud based DevOps environment.
• Experience with developing data-driven automation solutions leveraging observability tools (ElasticSearch or Splunk preferred)
• Recent programming / scripting experience in any of C++, BASH, Python, Java and Java script (within an Agile development environment preferred)

It Would Be Great if You Also Had One or More of the following:

• Familiar with core suite of AWS services related to DevOps, with particular depth in those that are heavily used when providing DevOps automation solutions, including the Management and Deployment services such as Terraform and IAM 
• Experience with the UNIX OS. 
• Experience with full life cycle Software design and development experience on large/complex n-tier Cloud based applications
• Experience implementing cloud security solutions using DevSecOps processes 
• Experience optimizing cost for cloud hosted applications and services 

Security Clearance - The ability to obtain and maintain a US security clearance. U.S. citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

What We Can Offer You:

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance understanding its importance to overall wellbeing and productivity.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Raytheon tenures, and we are developing an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior engineers truly enjoy mentoring more junior engineers and engineers from non-traditional backgrounds through one-on-one mentoring.

We care about your career growth. We try to assign projects and tasks based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on roles that are more complex in the future.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at Raytheon, we embrace and respect our differences. Diverse backgrounds, experiences, and views benefit our environment and problem solving, ultimately leading to greater success across the business. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion and continually striving for a more collaborative, respectful, and equitable workplace.

Benefits:  medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.

Other:

• Relocation assistance is not available
• Employee Referral Award Eligibility: Only employees currently within RMD and RI&S have the potential to receive a Referral Award for submitting a referral to RMD and RI&S roles.  ALL eligibility requirements must be met to receive the Referral Awarding

Raytheon Technologies is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.