Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer – Graph Analytics

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land sea space air and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day our employees do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Project Description:

• Provides the research development evaluation and demonstration of concepts technologies and capabilities to satisfy specific customer research requirements in specific areas.

Job Description:

• Provide comprehensive cloud software research development and engineering services.
• Lead the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) from initial requirements analysis and system design to integration testing and long-term enhancement of mission-critical cloud applications.
• This role is central to our mission of building and sustaining robust large-scale distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Software Services Development: Deliver end-to-end Full-Stack software services including requirements analysis installation evaluation and issue resolution.
• System Enhancement: Proactively diagnose complex technical issues and develop sustainable enhancements to improve system performance and reliability.
• Distributed Computing: Design and implement solutions utilizing massively parallel computation models and NoSQL architectures to handle large-scale data sets.
• Integration & Testing: Develop and implement rigorous test plans and scripts; integrate and extend FOSS/COTS products to meet unique project requirements.
• Technical Documentation: Generate high-quality technical documents ontologies and data models to support project transparency and long-term maintainability.
• Development Testing & Deployment:
  • Write and execute unit tests integration tests and end-to-end tests.
  • Implement continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
  • Deploy and maintain the web application in a production environment.
• Collaboration and Communication:
  • Collaborate effectively with data scientists engineers and product managers.
  • Communicate technical information clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing.

Highly Desired Skills:

• Graph Data Modeling & Performance: Experience designing and optimizing complex graph schemas in Neo4j. Proficiency with Cypher query optimization index management and utilizing APOC procedures for batching and large-scale data transformations.
• Enterprise Java Microservices: Advanced development using the Spring Boot ecosystem (Spring Data Spring Security Spring Cloud). Experience implementing robust scalable backend services with a focus on high-concurrency and performance tuning.
• Graph-Relational Integration: Demonstrated work experience integrating graph databases with traditional RDBMS or search engines (like Elasticsearch) to create polyglot persistence architecture(s).
• Graph Analytics & Algorithms: Familiarity with the Neo4j Graph Data Science (GDS) library to implement pathfinding centrality or community detection algorithms for real-time analysis.
• Advanced Analytics: Developing data-driven or event-driven analytics orchestrated through rules engines.
• Cloud Scalability: Understanding of massive scalability patterns used by industry leaders (Amazon Google etc.).
• AI & Pattern Discovery: Experience with genetic algorithms inference engines or identifying latent patterns in datasets exceeding 10 Petabytes.
• Specialized Processing: Foreign language processing multi-media exploitation (speech text image video) or social network discovery.
• Data Modeling: Experience documenting complex ontologies schemas and API specifications within heterogeneous environments.

Required Technical Skills:

• Experience: Minimum of eight (8) years in software development/engineering across the full SDLC.
• Development Languages: At least six (6) years of experience with high-level languages (e.g. Java C C).
• OS Expertise: At least five (5) years developing software for UNIX/Linux (specifically RedHat versions) environments.
• Cloud & Big Data Stack: Proven experience with NoSQL products (HBase Accumulo Big Table).
• Hands-on experience with MapReduce (Hadoop Hive Pig) and HDFS.
• Proficiency in RESTful services and serialization formats (JSON/BSON).
• Demonstrate experience in the requirements analysis and design of at least one major Object-Oriented system.
• Full-stack end-to-end software services delivery
• Graph-data Integration & Analytics
• Advanced development using the Spring Boot ecosystem (Spring Data Spring Security Spring Cloud).
• NoSQL products (HBase Accumulo Big Table)
• At least four (4) of the following knowledge areas:
  • Graph Data Modeling & Performance (in Neo4j)
  • Enterprise Java Microservices
  • Graph-Relational Integration
  • Graph Analytics & Algorithms
  • Advanced Analytics
  • Cloud Scalability
  • AI & Pattern Discovery
  • Specialized Processing (speech text image video)
  • Data Modeling

Basic Requirements:

• Active TS/SCI with current Polygraph required
• Twenty (20) years of experience as a Software Engineer (SWE) supporting programs and contracts of similar scope type and complexity.
• Bachelors degree in computer science or a related discipline from an accredited college or university.
• Four (4) additional years of SWE experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelors degree.

Benefits: Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees supporting this critical National Security program which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligibility to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical dental vision life health savings account short/long term disability EAP parental leave 401(k) paid time off (PTO) for vacation and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at Statements