Search Engineer Jobs in Virginia (NOW HIRING)

In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. Imagine Next!At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what's possible.

Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Software Engineer to join our team focused on Analytic Services!

In this role you will own the design, delivery, performance, and operational evolution of the analytics services domain for a large-scale, globally distributed mission platform.

You will be responsible for a portfolio of Java-based microservices and supporting analytics/search infrastructure built around Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, and Vue.js 3 based user interfaces.

This role requires someone who can combine search and aggregation architecture, query performance engineering, telemetry analytics, user-facing analytics design, and operational ownership.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Own the analytics services portfolio for a globally distributed software platform, including:

  • user-facing analytics services

  • search and aggregate query services

  • event roll-up and nested aggregation services

  • telemetry analytics and APM-related services

  • analytics-facing administrative and visualization interfaces

• Lead the design and delivery of Java-based microservices supporting analytics, search, aggregation, and reporting workflows

• Own analytics architecture across three primary query/analysis patterns:

  • regular queries on cached/indexed data

  • composite aggregations across multiple fields returning aggregated results

  • nested aggregations used for event rollups, hierarchy-based summaries, and other advanced analytical needs

• Ensure that analytics services support both:

  • business/mission-facing analytics and reporting

  • operational telemetry analysis across services, infrastructure, and networking

• Tune and optimize analytic queries and service interactions to meet strict performance and latency requirements, especially where analytics are embedded in real-time transaction workflows

• Lead the design and operation of analytics services built on:

  • Elasticsearch

  • Logstash

  • Kibana

  • Grafana

  • Vue.js 3 based user interfaces

• Define indexing, sharding, retention, and query strategy for both operational and user-facing analytics workloads

• Establish data models and service contracts that support analytics consistency across distributed deployments

• Work closely with data, platform, and software engineering teams to ensure high-quality ingestion pipelines and well-structured searchable data

• Own the service-level health, scalability, and observability of analytics microservices

• Guide implementation of dashboards, visualizations, role-specific analytics views, and reporting capabilities for different user groups

• Partner with operations and engineering teams to use telemetry and APM data to improve system reliability, identify bottlenecks, and support root cause analysis

• Lead major incident analysis where analytics or observability performance impacts mission or platform operations

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field. 4 Additional years of experience can substitute for a degree.

• 10+ years of software engineering, data platform engineering, search engineering, or analytics platform experience, including 4+ years leading a major technical service area or team.

• Strong experience building and operating analytics or search services in production

• Strong hands-on experience with:

  • Elasticsearch

  • Logstash

  • Kibana and/or Grafana

  • Java-based backend services / microservices

• Demonstrated ownership of a technical analytics domain from architecture through operations

• Experience leading engineering teams or multi-team delivery for analytics/search platforms

• Strong troubleshooting skills across ingestion, indexing, query, UI, and platform layers

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain performance, scale, and tradeoff decisions clearly
• Proven experience with analytics patterns such as:

  • indexed query optimization

  • field aggregations and composite aggregations

  • nested/document-based aggregations

  • rollups and summary generation

  • caching strategies for query performance

• Experience tuning analytics and search services for strict latency and SLA-driven workflows

• Experience designing analytics services that serve both:

  • user-facing business/mission use cases

  • internal operational telemetry and APM use cases

• Strong understanding of data ingestion, indexing, retention, and search relevance/performance tradeoffs

• Experience designing role-based analytics access patterns and user-facing analytics/reporting services

• TS/SCI minimum clearance required.

• Domestic and/or international project travel may be required.

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Master's degree in Data Engineering, Computer Science, Analytics, or related field

• Experience with Vue.js 3 or similar frameworks for analytics dashboards and role-based user interfaces

• Experience building analytics and observability solutions in distributed microservices environments

• Experience with telemetry pipelines for logs, events, and metrics at large scale

• Familiarity with APM concepts, distributed tracing, and service health correlation

• Experience with Grafana + ELK coexisting in the same observability/analytics ecosystem

• Experience with real-time or near-real-time event analysis in mission or operational systems

• Familiarity with RabbitMQ, event pipelines, or stream processing supporting analytics workloads

• Experience with multilingual analytics interfaces or region-specific reporting requirements

• Experience with capacity planning and cost/performance tuning for analytics clusters

• Experience optimizing Elasticsearch clusters for mixed workloads (user queries + operational telemetry)

• Experience supporting globally distributed platforms with variable network conditions and remote operational support models

• Experience with RBAC and multi-tenant analytics access models

• Experience building reusable reporting and dashboard frameworks for multiple user communities

Security Clearance Requirement:

An active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position.This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what's next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.Salary Range: $148,300.00 - $266,900.00We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.We truly invest and care about our employee's wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest-APPLY TODAY!

Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer tohttps://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/.