raft · Tampa, FL; Dayton, OH · Dayton, Ohio, United States · Tampa, Florida, United States
<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>This is a U.S. based position. All of the programs we support require </strong><strong>U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment. All work must be conducted within the continental U.S.</strong></p></div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Who we are:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="TextRun SCXW186077346 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW186077346 BCX0">Raft (</span></span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW186077346 BCX0" href="https://teamraft.com/" target="_blank"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW186077346 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW186077346 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink">https://TeamRaft.com</span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCXW186077346 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW186077346 BCX0">) is a customer-obsessed non-traditional defense tech company dedicated to empowering U.S. military and government agencies with </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW186077346 BCX0">cutting-edge</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW186077346 BCX0"> AI/ML and data solutions. We are a leader in autonomous data fusion and Agentic AI, with a purposeful focus on Distributed Data Systems, Platforms at Scale, and Complex Application Development. With headquarters in McLean, VA, our range of clients includes innovative federal and public agencies </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW186077346 BCX0">leveraging</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW186077346 BCX0"> design thinking, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW186077346 BCX0">cutting-edge</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW186077346 BCX0"> tech stack, and cloud-native </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW186077346 BCX0">ecosystem</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW186077346 BCX0">. We build digital solutions that </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW186077346 BCX0">impact</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW186077346 BCX0"> the lives of millions of Americans.</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW186077346 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"335551550":0,"335551620":0,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We’re looking for an experienced<strong> Senior Engineer </strong>to support our customers and join our passionate team of high-impact problem solvers.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About the role: </strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Raft is building a data platform for the Department of Defense (DoD), aimed at enhancing operators' awareness of critical data. This data is subsequently enriched, rendered queryable, and ultimately presented as a common operational picture to empower operators in making time critical and pertinent decisions. Key technologies include Kafka, Kafka Streams, Pinot, Java, Scala, and Kubernetes. Your involvement in this role will encompass hands-on collaboration with a team of accomplished individuals, collectively striving towards excellence.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you will do:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Build data infrastructure and platforms using diverse data frameworks such as Apache Kafka, Flink, and Kafka Streams</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Build Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) pipelines to enable comprehensive data operations</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Leverage software engineering principles to architect, develop, and implement large scale data applications</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What we are looking for:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Three plus years of hands-on relevant industry experience </span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience with large-scale relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch to handle low-latency requirements</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience or knowledge of service mesh technologies, such as Istio </span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family