Product Engineer

Apply now: Product Software Engineer location is Tysons VA. The start date is ASAP for this 6-month contract-to-hire position.

Job Title: Product Software Engineer
Location-Type: Hybrid Tysons VA (23 Days Onsite Per Week Typically TuesdayThursday)
Start Date Is: ASAP
Duration: 6-Month Contract-to-Hire
Compensation Range: $71-$82/hr W2
Benefits: Eligible for Health Dental Vision 401K
Must be authorized to work in the U.S. This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

Job Description:
Our client is seeking a Product Software Engineer to help design and build the foundational architecture of a next-generation physical security platform. This is a 100% greenfield backend-focused product engineering role where you will build services integrations identity and authorization capabilities and real-time messaging infrastructure from the ground up. The ideal candidate is a builder who thrives in a small team enjoys solving ambiguous technical problems and has hands-on experience developing production backend software cloud-based pub/sub or IoT systems and secure authentication and authorization solutions.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Design and build backend APIs and microservices supporting user and device identity token validation and authorization.
• Develop enterprise authorization capabilities using RBAC ABAC and related access-control models.
• Architect and secure serverless publish/subscribe messaging infrastructure across modern cloud environments.
• Build IoT and edge-ingestion capabilities using MQTT and secure machine-to-machine communication.
• Design data pipelines that ingest streaming telemetry and reliably persist data within cloud-based data stores.
• Build integrations with access-control video alarm sensor and other physical security platforms using vendor APIs SDKs and event streams.
• Implement authentication and authorization using technologies such as OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect JWT and SAML.
• Design secure logging auditing monitoring and threat-detection capabilities for edge and cloud access requests.
• Build proof-of-concepts and prototypes to evaluate new technologies and architectural approaches.
• Help design scalable systems from the ground up rather than maintaining an established architecture.
• Evaluate technical approaches and clearly communicate tradeoffs and recommendations.
• Collaborate closely with Product Security Operations and Engineering stakeholders.
• Take ownership of technical decisions and remain accountable for outcomes.
• Translate complex technical concepts for both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Experiment with new technologies and help determine how they can be incorporated into the evolving product platform.

Minimum Requirements:

• 35 years of professional product software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend development.
• Professional experience developing production software in Go C#/.NET and/or Python with Go particularly valuable.
• Experience building backend APIs microservices or distributed systems in a commercial product environment.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure across AWS Azure and/or GCP ideally with strong experience in at least two major cloud platforms.
• Experience with MQTT publish/subscribe messaging patterns broker integrations IoT or comparable distributed messaging technologies.
• Experience building serverless messaging solutions using technologies such as AWS IoT Core SNS SQS; Azure IoT Hub Service Bus Event Hubs; or Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
• Hands-on authentication and authorization experience.
• Strong understanding of OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect JWT and related identity protocols.
• Experience with role-based and/or attribute-based access control.
• Experience with containers and modern cloud-native development.
• Understanding of PKI TLS X.509 certificates and secure software-development practices.
• Experience building proof-of-concepts prototypes or new systems from the ground up.
• Experience taking a product feature or technical capability from initial concept through production launch.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology or a related technical field.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Builder mentality with a curious hands-on approach to solving technical problems.
• Ability to operate effectively in an ambiguous greenfield environment and independently make technical decisions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Physical security technology experience.
• IoT product development experience.
• Identity and access management software experience.
• Experience integrating access-control video alarm or sensor platforms.
• Policy-as-code experience.
• Experience modernizing legacy infrastructure into managed serverless ingestion or messaging services.
• Open-source contributions involving identity IoT distributed messaging or streaming data.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools.
• Experience building high-volume streaming or telemetry platforms.
• Experience working on small highly collaborative product engineering teams.