Software Engineer - Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Location: Remote within the United States. U.S. citizenship and an active U.S. Government SECRET security clearance or higher are required.

Salary: $148,750–$201,250 USD annually, based on experience.

Company

hirify.global delivers secure, cloud-native software integration, delivery, testing, and deployment solutions for federal and enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Assess the architecture, build process, dependencies, runtime behavior, testing, security posture, and open-source relationships of an SDN codebase.
• Implement secure, maintainable changes that remediate vulnerabilities, improve resilience, and preserve traceability across upstream software, Government-owned code, configurations, and patches.
• Develop unit, integration, end-to-end, regression, and failure-mode tests for hardening and modernization work.
• Debug application, Linux, and network behavior involving traffic flows, routing, segmentation, identity, failover, telemetry, and performance.
• Partner with platform engineers on container readiness, packaging, CI/CD, deployment workflows, and automated security scanning.
• Support lab validation, demonstrations, release acceptance, technical documentation, architecture reviews, and engineering mentorship.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software-engineering experience with ownership of production or legacy codebases.
• Proficiency in C++, Python, and Bash scripting, with strong Linux fundamentals.
• Strong networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, routing, DNS, TLS, segmentation, policy enforcement, and traffic analysis.
• Experience with secure software development, dependency management, vulnerability remediation, code review, testing, containers, build automation, CI/CD, and observability.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, documentation, and technical assessment skills.
• U.S. citizenship and an active U.S. Government SECRET security clearance or higher.

Nice to have

• Experience with SDN, network orchestration, routing, virtual network functions, network appliances, or network-control software.
• Experience containerizing VM-based or monolithic software and maintaining upstream open-source integrations, forks, or patches.
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering, Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps, OCI artifacts, SAST, DAST, SBOMs, container scanning, STIGs, resilience engineering, chaos testing, and observability.
• Experience migrating VM-based applications to containerized deployments.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work within the United States.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus a health savings account, life insurance, and disability insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan, company stock options, and a home office budget.
• Flexible Time Off, federal holidays, additional Thanksgiving and winter holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Reimbursement for approved training and subscriptions, plus conference travel, lodging, and fees.