Raytheon

A talented software engineer is needed in Riverdale, Maryland to join Raytheon’s EED-2 (EOSDIS Evolution and Development) team which supports NASA in its mission to provide scientists and other users access to data from NASA’s Earth science missions. As a member of the EED-2 team, software engineers will build innovative tools allowing scientists and students alike to discover, transform, update and improve the quality of earth science data in the pursuit of solving a wide range of environmental and socio-economic issues. Specifically, this opening is for a software engineer on EED-2’s Common Metadata Repository (CMR) team. The CMR is an AWS hosted scalable repository for ~500M earth science metadata records from around the world. It receives approximately 3M queries per week and is envied for its speed and reliability. The CMR team is an established and high performing agile team working in the Scaled Agile Framework methodology.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle from user story generation, through design, development, automated testing and operational support
• Develop new feature ideas to meet the ever evolving needs of our end-users
• Continually help the team grow by sharing new ideas and industry best practices
• Suggest improvements to processes and tools to help the team be more efficient
• Other duties as assigned

Required Skills:

• 2+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Experience with a functional programming language, such as Clojure
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience with the Atlassian tool suite (JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo)
• Experience as a member of small team using Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Firm commitment to automated testing and continuous integration
• Proponent of continuous improvement and willingness to bring new ideas to the team

Desired Skills:

• Experience with machine learning
• Experience with algorithm optimization
• Experience with Elasticsearch
• Experience developing in Clojure
• Experience with Geographic information systems (GIS)
• Experience developing on MacOS X and deploying to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Experience presenting at technical conferences

Required Education:

• Must have a BS degree in a technical major, such as engineering or computer science, and 2 years direct experience.

U.S. citizenship is required. All candidates must be able to pass a National Agency Clearance with Inquires (NACI) screening

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Raytheon is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.