Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, Backend Developer

Overview
Software Engineer
McLean, VA
TS/SCI with Poly

At Bcore, our strength comes from how we deliver impact to the mission. Whether it’s architecting critical IT solutions, producing actionable intelligence, or developing cutting edge technology, we succeed because of the expertise, collaboration, and agility of our teams. Our Mission Services division combines enterprise IT, cloud solutions, Dev Sec Ops , systems engineering, software development, and operational support. Bcore accelerates decisive advantage for warfighters and intelligence professionals by fusing human insight, rapid-fire engineering, precision-measured outcomes, and relentless grit into mission-ready solutions.

Do you want to join a team that is building tailored technical solutions to modernize our government’s mission and our client’s business? Do you have a desire to change how people work? Are you interested in helping to protect our nation’s cyber interests? Join our growing team supporting customer missions as a Software Engineer in Mc Lean
Virginia
.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience designing, building, and operating production systems
• Strong Python expertise with a demonstrated object-oriented design approach, including clean abstractions, modular architectures, and testable codebases
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining APIs, with documented use of modern Python frameworks such as FastAPI (or equivalent)
• Experience integrating ML-driven components into production systems, including:
  • Deploying pre-trained NLP or ML models into backend services
  • Designing APIs and workflows that consume model outputs
  • Monitoring model-backed services for latency, failures, and regressions
• Experience working with AWS-based systems, including:
  • Debugging and analyzing application and service logs
  • Monitoring production issues and participating in incident response
• Strong experience collaborating cross-functionally, particularly with frontend engineers, to integrate backend services, APIs, and data flows
• Knowledge of backend security best practices, including authentication, authorization, and data protection
• Experience working in CI/CD-driven development environments, including:
  • Git-based workflows (e.g., Git Hub)
  • Automated testing, build, and deployment pipelines (e.g., Jenkins or similar)
• Solid understanding of backend system reliability, including error handling, observability, and performance optimization
• Ability to work effectively within a team, taking ownership of components while contributing to shared engineering standards

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with Open Search and/or Elasticsearch, including:
• Ingesting and indexing large volumes of documents
• Designing mappings and query strategies for search and retrieval use cases
• Optimizing query performance and relevance
• Experience with AWS RDS or relational databases, including schema design and query optimization
• Exposure to microservices or service-oriented architectures
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Cloud Watch, Open Telemetry, Prometheus)
• Familiarity with containerized application environments, including Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and/or AWS EKS

BCore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.