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About the Role

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the strategic direction for backend and full-stack engineering practices, architecture, and technical excellence across the organization.
Lead the development of scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems that serve government customers.
Serve as the technical authority and thought leader for system architecture, data design, and engineering excellence.
Design and implement modern service architectures, data pipelines, and infrastructure patterns that enable team velocity and system reliability.
Deliver new features and improvements to our core services including major read/write paths for customer intake, application screening, and information dissemination.
Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to balance technical feasibility with business requirements, making pragmatic trade-offs that deliver measurable impact.
Build and maintain shared libraries, service frameworks, and infrastructure patterns that enable consistency and reduce cognitive load.
Identify opportunities to modernize our backend systems and take ownership of large-scale technical initiatives that improve system quality, performance, and maintainability.
Establish and champion engineering best practices including API design, data modeling, testing strategies, observability patterns, security standards, and code quality.
Mentor and coach engineers at all levels on backend technologies, distributed systems, and establish career development pathways for backend specialization.
Influence technical decisions across teams and serve as a strategic advisor on architecture and infrastructure initiatives.
Work across the full stack when needed to solve problems end-to-end – frontend and infrastructure experience is valuable but backend systems are your primary focus.

Requirements

Demonstrated track record of leading and delivering multiple production-ready, scalable distributed systems with measurable business impact.
Proven experience architecting and implementing microservice architectures at scale with high-throughput and reliability requirements.
Track record of establishing backend engineering standards, practices, and architectural patterns that improve team productivity and system quality.
Working experience with distributed system patterns including event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, caching strategies, and data consistency patterns.
Experience designing and implementing APIs (REST, GraphQL, or similar) that serve as the foundation for customer-facing applications.
Strong understanding of system transformation patterns with practical experience leading modernization efforts from monoliths to microservices or legacy to modern stacks.
Experience with observability, monitoring, and alerting strategies including structured logging, metrics, tracing, and incident response.
Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, infrastructure as code, and deployment patterns (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Experience with data architecture including relational and NoSQL databases, data modeling, migration strategies, and data governance.
Strong proficiency in modern programming languages (Java, Python, or similar) with deep understanding of language ecosystems and tooling.
Solid understanding of distributed systems principles including consistency models, consensus algorithms, failure modes, and reliability patterns.
Working knowledge of cloud engineering paradigms, asynchronous systems, service integration patterns, and event-driven architectures.
Experience with automated testing strategies including unit testing, integration testing, contract testing, and end-to-end system testing.
Practical knowledge of system performance optimization, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
Understanding of security principles including authentication, authorization, encryption, secrets management, and secure coding practices.
Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, security scanning, and deployment strategies.
Familiarity with container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS), infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation), and DevOps practices.
Demonstrated ability to design systems that balance consistency, availability, partition tolerance, performance, and cost.
Strong understanding of data architecture including database selection, schema design, indexing strategies, and query optimization.
Experience with message brokers, event streaming platforms (Kafka, SQS, EventBridge), and asynchronous processing patterns.
Ability to design for reliability including graceful degradation, circuit breakers, retry strategies, and disaster recovery.
Working knowledge of API design principles, versioning strategies, and backward compatibility patterns.
Understanding of system observability including structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics aggregation, and alerting strategies.
Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale technical initiatives from vision to production, influencing outcomes across multiple teams.
Quality driven, sets the standard for excellence in communication, code, and documentation.
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts and strategic vision clearly to engineers, product managers, executives, and external stakeholders.
Proven track record of mentoring and developing engineers at all levels, building organizational backend engineering capability.
Recognized advocate for sound engineering practices who establishes patterns and influences engineering culture.
Comfort leading cross-functional initiatives, making architectural decisions with organizational impact, and navigating technical/business trade-offs at the principal level.
Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain and maintain Public Trust 6C.

Skills

Problem Solving
Software Solutions
Solutions Development
Backend Engineering
Full-Stack Engineering
Distributed Systems
System Architecture
Data Design
Service Architectures
Data Pipelines
Infrastructure Patterns
API Design
Data Modeling
Testing Strategies
Observability Patterns
Security Standards
Code Quality
Microservice Architectures
Event-Driven Architectures
Asynchronous Processing
Caching Strategies
Data Consistency Patterns
REST APIs
GraphQL APIs
System Transformation Patterns
Monolith to Microservices Migration
Legacy to Modern Stack Migration
Monitoring
Alerting
Structured Logging
Metrics
Tracing
Incident Response
Cloud-Native Architectures
Infrastructure as Code
Deployment Patterns
AWS
Azure
GCP
Relational Databases
NoSQL Databases
Data Governance
Java
Python
Cloud Engineering Paradigms
Service Integration Patterns
Unit Testing
Integration Testing
Contract Testing
End-to-End System Testing
System Performance Optimization
Capacity Planning
Cost Optimization
Security Principles
Authentication
Authorization
Encryption
Secrets Management
Secure Coding Practices
CI/CD Pipelines
Security Scanning
Container Orchestration
Kubernetes
ECS
Terraform
CloudFormation
DevOps Practices
Consistency
Availability
Partition Tolerance
Performance
Cost
Database Selection
Schema Design
Indexing Strategies
Query Optimization
Message Brokers
Event Streaming Platforms
Kafka
SQS
EventBridge
Graceful Degradation
Circuit Breakers
Retry Strategies
Disaster Recovery
API Versioning
Backward Compatibility
Distributed Tracing
Metrics Aggregation
Alerting Strategies

Location

Any Location / Remote
Remote

Work Type

Full-time
Remote

Experience Level

5+ years of related experience
Principal

Salary/Compensations

$142,792 - $189,750

Benefits

Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
Dental plan options
Vision plan
401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
Full flex work weeks where possible
Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness
10 paid holidays per year
Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire
Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
Short and long-term disability benefits
Life insurance
Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
Personal accident insurance
Critical illness insurance
Business travel and accident insurance

About the Company

GDIT is a global technology and professional services company.
We deliver technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community.
Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation.
We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

Equal Opportunity

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans