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Software Systems Engineer

Areté

$120,000 - $175,000
Oct 11, 2025
Falls Church, VA, US
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Areté is seeking to solve the nation’s most complex security challenges by utilizing innovative solutions and great minds from all backgrounds.

Requirements

  • Experience as a Scrum master, who can hold efficient daily stand-ups, maintain multiple Jira Boards, and can provide bi-weekly status reports to customers
  • Experience with the Agile process and can utilize Confluence and JIRA
  • Familiarity with Squish/Jenkins/GIT (or a willingness to learn)
  • Basic knowledge and experience with C++/Python
  • Assist in the development of requirements derivation and traceability
  • Involvement with systems integration, test, and performance verification within the IC
  • Active Top-Secret clearance and be eligible and willing to obtain an SCI clearance

Responsibilities

  • Define, document, test, and validate complex software systems, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and scalability
  • Create and maintain detailed software documentation to include, but not limited to, release notes, user guides, training material, and troubleshooting procedures
  • Develop detailed test plans and procedures, ensuring they could be run by a novice user
  • Execute all phases and types (manual/automated) of testing: user story testing, end-to-end testing, regression testing of releases, and performance testing
  • Create automated test scripts (in python) and integrate automated test suite as part of each pull request utilizing a software package called Squish
  • Document findings, generate test reports, and present results to stakeholders
  • Track all internal and external bugs and DRs

Other

  • MUST hold an active Top-Secret clearance and be eligible and willing to obtain an SCI clearance (which will include a polygraph)
  • Degree background: Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science
  • U.S. citizenship is required to meet position eligibility
  • Successful passage of a criminal background screen is required to meet position eligibility
  • Selected applicants will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information