Principal Software Engineer

Annapolis Junction, MD March 7, 2026 Full Time Lever
Join ClearEdge and be part of a mission-focused team solving some of the DoD’s most complex technical challenges. Every day, ClearEdge supports government and industry customers by delivering innovative solutions that enable critical operations and mission success. ClearEdge offers an extremely competitive benefits package—including a $10k annual training and education benefit, a 10% 401(k) contribution fully vested on day one, annual health and technology allowances, and access to a state-of-the-art technology lab. Learn more at www.clearedgeit.com/careers/ Your Mission: As a Principal Software Engineer, you will serve on a five-person Agile Software Team delivering feature enhancements to a metrics and monitoring system, including a centralized health and status dashboard. You will collaborate closely with System Engineers and Software Developers to implement scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions that coordinate status across multiple data sources and generate alerting based on events, metrics, and reports. You will support and enhance a virtual compute and containerized application stack, ensuring DevOps best practices are integrated throughout the system lifecycle. This role includes developing lightweight application variants for limited-resource environments, producing shareable versions for U.S. partners, containerizing mission applications, and ensuring performance requirements are met across both low and high side environments.
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