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KBR's National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country's most critical role - protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: At KBR, you'll be working on cutting-edge projects that support the Department of the Air Force's most mission-critical operations. Our team is pushing the boundaries of open-source development, DevSecOps with state-of-the-art CI/CD pipelines, containerization, Kubernetes, Terraform, Zarf, and innovative API management and database design. You'll be contributing to systems designed for a modeling and simulation SaaS platform that provides dynamic compute power, access to tools, and collaboration capability through a model that will revolutionize the future of military research and development.

• Collaborative Environment: Our team thrives in a dynamic, mission-driven environment where our employees work shoulder-to-shoulder with software engineers, DevSecOps architects, product leads, mission experts, and defense specialists. We embrace Agile methodologies and secure development practices to ensure rapid iteration, compliance alignment, and seamless integration across modular systems. Our culture prioritizes clarity, precision, and innovation-fostering open communication, iterative refinement, and deep collaboration to deliver software and documentation that's not only compliant, but strategic and impactful across DoD.

• Impactful Work: Your work here will directly support the Department of the Air Force in advancing defense technology. You'll be at the forefront of innovations, creating new paradigms for providing access to compute power, modeling and simulation tools, and data sharing across organizations to the Department of the Air Force and broader Department of Defense.

Position Summary:

KBR is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer with a strong interest in storage architecture, distributed storage systems, and cloud-native data platforms to support the development and sustainment of the GEMSTONE platform. This position will help design, deploy, and manage storage solutions supporting modeling and simulation applications, digital engineering environments, warfighter AI/ML workloads, user data, and platform services across both cloud and on-premises deployments.

The successful candidate will work closely with platform engineers and DevSecOps teams to implement scalable, secure, and resilient storage services within (or alongside) Kubernetes-based environments and help shape GEMSTONE's long-term storage architecture for classified and unclassified deployments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement software solutions supporting platform storage and data persistence services.
• Develop backend services that manage datasets, digital artifacts, metadata, user content, and workflow outputs.
• Support design and operation of distributed storage solutions for Kubernetes-based environments and on-premises environments
• Assist with design and implementation of hybrid (cloud-native and on-premises) storage architectures within Kubernetes environments.
• Build and maintain web applications that allow users to discover, manage, publish, and access data assets.
• Support development of APIs for data access, artifact publication, metadata management, and storage lifecycle operations.
• Support persistent storage capabilities for interactive developer and engineering environments.
• Develop automation supporting backup, replication, migration, archiving, and recovery workflows.
• Collaborate with platform engineers to integrate storage services with identity, authorization, auditing, and monitoring solutions.
• Participate in architecture reviews, Agile development activities, code reviews, and testing efforts.
• Support deployment and validation through CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to technical documentation and operational procedures.

Work Environment:

• Location: Onsite or Hybrid-Dayton, OH
• Travel Requirements: None
• Working Hours: Standard

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline.
• Ability to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance
• Ability to learn complex software ecosystems and rapidly become proficient in new platforms and technologies.
• Experience with distributed storage platforms such as Ceph, Longhorn, OpenEBS, Portworx, GlusterFS, or equivalent solutions.
• Experience deploying or supporting applications within Kubernetes environments.
• Experience with on-premises storage infrastructure and storage management.
• Strong understanding of Linux file systems (ext4, XFS, Btrfs, ZFS), POSIX, VFS
• Familiarity with cloud-native storage technologies including Persistent Volumes (PV), Persistent Volume Claims (PVC), Storage Classes, and CSI drivers.
• 1-5 years of professional software development experience.
• Experience developing backend services using one or more modern programming languages:
  • GoLang
  • Python
  • Java
  • C#
• Experience developing web applications using:
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
• Experience working with relational or non-relational databases.
• Understanding of software engineering principles and data management concepts.
• Familiarity with Linux development environments.

Desired:

• Experience with RDBMS such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MSSQL
• Experience with non-RDBMS such as MongoDB, Redis, or Elastic/OpenSearch
• Experience supporting data-intensive workloads, such as distributed AI/ML, digital engineering, or modeling and simulation applications.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, Helm, ArgoCD, or Kubernetes platform operations.
• Experience supporting classified, air-gapped, or secure computing environments.
• Familiarity with S3-compatible object storage technologies.
• Understanding of metadata management and data cataloging concepts.
• Familiarity with API-driven data access patterns.
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices.

Ready to Make a Difference?

If you're excited about making a significant impact in the field of space defense and working on projects that matter, we encourage you to apply and join our team at KBR. Let's shape the future together.

KBR Benefits

KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR
At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of team's philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver - Together.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.