Principal Full-Stack (Front-End Focused) Software Engineer - Starfleet

Principal Full-Stack Software Engineer

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

The Payload and Ground Systems organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission.

We have an opening for a Principal Full-Stack (Front-End Focused) Software Engineer to join our Redondo Beach, CA, Software and Controls Department which has 200+ Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Systems Administrators, Database Administrators, and Network Engineers from entry-level to the most senior chief engineers and architects.

This engineering organization supports numerous programs within the Payload and Ground Systems organization. We have plenty of opportunity for career advancement into higher level technical roles or leadership positions. We are part of a larger local engineering organization that includes Systems Engineering and Hardware Engineering staff. This overall local engineering organization influences cross-program collaboration, professional development and training, as well as engagement and inclusion activities such as lunch-n-learns, campus events, and leadership mixers.

As a Full-Stack (Front-End Focused) Software Engineer, you'll be joining an existing on-contract classified portfolio called Swordfish supporting a critical national security mission that is both in Operations and major development. The program team has a distributed team located at several Northrop Grumman sites across the US as well as at distributed collaborating partner company sites. Some of the program's baseline and environments are unclassified allowing some work outside a secure facility. You will support integration, test, and deployment in the secure environment part of the time which ensures you see and understand the full software lifecycle and full program mission. The program's culture is agile, fast-paced, high performing, proactive, collaborative, and welcoming of new ideas, technology, and tools that could benefit the mission or help the team be more productive or produce a higher quality product.

Basic Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree with 5 years of relevant experience; Master's degree with 3 years of relevant experience; PhD with 1 year of relevant experience; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• Active TS / SCI clearance required at time of application, and the ability to obtain / pass a Counterintelligence Polygraph (CI-Poly)
• Experience with Agile principles, processes, and tools
• Experience developing applications in Java
• Experience developing applications in a containerized architecture using Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience developing applications on a Linux / Unix operating system

Preferred Qualifications :