Senior Software Development Engineer

Lynchburg, VA

Full Time

Experienced

CloudFit Software is seeking a Software Development Engineer with experience in developing cloud-based applications and working within small, agile development teams. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to take ownership of key feature areas in a product(s), from reviewing upcoming work items to driving them to a successful release. 

As a Software Development Engineer, you will tackle complex problems within system and architectural boundaries and work closely with customers to validate feature requirements, ensuring the highest level of customer service. The ideal candidate will have a passion for learning new technologies and adapting to the evolving needs of the company and its customers. 

Responsibilities:

End to end ownership of a product from feature backlog to support and maintenance.
Create, drive and adopt engineering best practices to your daily work with participation in all phases of a project lifecycle. This includes daily stand ups, code reviews, monthly engineering reviews, source code management, pipeline and deployment processes along with testing and support of production code.
Communicate with users, other technical engineers and management to elicit requirements, describe product features and technical design topics, then translate those to deployable, supportable software.
Actively participate in regular engineering related meetings and cross team mentoring activities.
Participate in an On-Call rotation for production platform support.
Negotiate trade-offs between software quality and time to market.

Required Qualifications:

6+ years of professional application development experience in a modern software development role.
Versatile engineer and full stack developer with demonstrated capabilities in both depth and breadth of skills. Customers, large and small, systems complex and simple, projects easy and involved, using both licensed and open-source software.
Demonstrated experience in a customer facing position where providing technical evaluations and tradeoffs in a concise and straight forward manner are required.
Experience enhancing or modernizing critical systems while ensuring security, availability and minimized business risk
Experience as a mentor and technical leader
Transformational experience with traditional on prem or SDLC businesses adopting a real-world DevOps production environment.
Demonstrated experience developing enterprise scale distributed applications, with modern, Cloud native, applications.
Proven ability to correctly estimate multi-phased, multi-disciplinary, enterprise level projects in schedule and time required, technical complexity, security risks, support needs, and reliability concerns.
Shown expertise in work management via Agile type environments and familiarity with Kanban type tools, Jira or Azure DevOps.
Experience in automation of unit, regression, and feature testing.
Strong background in computer science fundamentals such as object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms
Current Federal Security Clearance or ability to obtain (US Citizenship required)

Preferred Qualifications:

Demonstrated understanding, or experience building, application instrumentation and/or monitoring systems
Demonstrated understanding of cloud and data storage design patterns and technologies
Experiencing leveraging Machine Learning and AI in customer applications or internal workflows
Cloud and DevOps certifications
Sec+ certification
Experience coding on top of a cloud provider, preferably Microsoft Azure
Computer Science Degree or related technical fields

The salary range for this role is $80,000 - $175,000 + benefits & perks. 

If you are excited by this type of challenge, and you love to work in groups of people who are similarly excited, come join us. We value the input of people who aren't afraid to be learning all the time, who celebrate mistakes because they show the way forward, and those who are happy to continuously improve. We strongly believe that diverse experiences and backgrounds, and an environment where everyone can feel safe to contribute their own insights in a data-driven, objective, but supportive way is the key to making the best workplace possible, and the best workplace makes the best products and services.

Many of our positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

CloudFit is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
FLSA – Job Classification: Exempt, Full Time Position.

Current Federal Security Clearance or ability to obtain (US Citizenship required)  
*CloudFit participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm you are authorized to work in the U.S.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies show that women and people of color often hesitate to apply for jobs unless they meet every qualification listed. At CloudFit, we’re committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we still encourage you to apply! You might be the perfect fit for this position—or another one on our team.

CloudFit Benefits & Perks:  

CloudFit benefits are designed with wellness in mind, to support what matters the most: 
Physical Health: Medical, dental, vision insurance, & voluntary health options for you and your family!
Mental Health: Talkspace, Calm, virtual therapy, counseling
Financial Wellness: 401(k), HSA, FSAs, Personal Financial Advisors  
3 Weeks of PTO, 15 Paid Company Holidays, 8 Giving Back Hours 
Wellness Program: reimbursement, gym discounts, health fairs, & more!
Recognition Program: Earn & give recognition, annual awards, celebrations

Career development for employees at every level is a priority at CloudFit. 

Certification Reimbursement 
User Friendly Career Development Tools & Resources

Check out CloudFit Candidate Portal for more information on roles, benefits, internships, and more!  

About CloudFit
CloudFit Software provides customers the ability to quickly iterate on the development of Cloud Solutions while optimizing security, networking, operations, and monitoring through an engineering mindset. At CloudFit, we instrument solutions that attempt to reduce the human element by applying automation and engineering to every aspect of a solution's lifecycle. CloudFit focuses on delivering managed scenarios that meet customer business needs. This allows us to provide core operational outcomes while integrating back with the customer’s existing operations teams. 

Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.  
CloudFit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations and support in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need accommodation, please contact the Talent Acquisition team at [email protected].  

CloudFit is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society, including veterans, and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Current Federal Security Clearance or ability to obtain (US Citizenship required)  

*CloudFit participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm you are authorized to work in the U.S.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies show that women and people of color often hesitate to apply for jobs unless they meet every qualification listed. At CloudFit, we’re committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we still encourage you to apply! You might be the perfect fit for this position—or another one on our team.

CloudFit Benefits & Perks:  

CloudFit benefits are designed with wellness in mind, to support what matters the most: 
Physical Health: Medical, dental, vision insurance, & voluntary health options for you and your family! 
Mental Health: Talkspace, Calm, virtual therapy, counseling
Financial Wellness: 401(k), HSA, FSAs, Personal Financial Advisors  
3 Weeks of PTO, 15 Paid Company Holidays, 8 Giving Back Hours 
Wellness Program: reimbursement, gym discounts, health fairs, & more!
Recognition Program: Earn & give recognition, annual awards, celebrations

Career development for employees at every level is a priority at CloudFit. 

Certification Reimbursement 
User Friendly Career Development Tools & Resources

Check out CloudFit Candidate Portal for more information on roles, benefits, internships, and more!  

About CloudFit

CloudFit Software provides customers the ability to quickly iterate on the development of Cloud Solutions while optimizing security, networking, operations, and monitoring through an engineering mindset. At CloudFit, we instrument solutions that attempt to reduce the human element by applying automation and engineering to every aspect of a solution's lifecycle. CloudFit focuses on delivering managed scenarios that meet customer business needs. This allows us to provide core operational outcomes while integrating back with the customer’s existing operations teams. 

Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.  

CloudFit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations and support in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need accommodation, please contact the Talent Acquisition team at careers@cloudfitsoftware.com.  

CloudFit is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society, including veterans, and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

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