{"id":1546125,"url":"https://alion.io/job/leidos-software-engineer-v","title":"Software Engineer V","company":{"id":7791,"name":"Leidos","domain":"leidos.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/leidos","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"services","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":90,"open_postings":115,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.609,"repost_share":0.017,"time_to_fill_p50_days":21,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Reston, United States","Washington, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":107900,"max":195050,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":195050},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":6,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Configuration Management","optional":false},{"name":"FinOps","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"Okta","optional":false},{"name":"Acunetix","optional":true},{"name":"Ansible","optional":true},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":true},{"name":"Docker","optional":true},{"name":"GitHub","optional":true},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":true},{"name":"Rest API","optional":true},{"name":"SOAP","optional":true},{"name":"Splunk","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-30T22:10:53Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-30","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T16:53:49Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Leidos is seeking a Software Engineer V to support the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) in resolving complex technical challenges, modernizing digital products and services, and advancing secure, automated software engineering practices across the OJP environment.\nThe Software Engineer V will serve as a senior hands-on engineer and technical problem solver for complex applications, application programming interfaces (APIs), integrations, automation pipelines, and production environments. The successful candidate will revise software to resolve technical complaints, systemic defects, performance issues, and recurring operational problems; lead root-cause analysis and durable remediation; establish and improve engineering standards; reduce technical debt and unnecessary technology duplication; and guide implementation of resilient, secure, maintainable, and automated solutions aligned with OJP architecture and product-delivery objectives.\nPrimary Responsibilities\nLead the design, development, modernization, integration, testing, deployment, and sustainment of complex software solutions supporting OJP digital products and services.\nAnalyze technical complaints, production issues, recurring defects, integration failures, performance problems, and customer-reported issues; perform root-cause analysis and implement durable software corrections.\nDesign and implement secure, modular, interoperable APIs, application components, data integrations, and automation that reduce technical debt and unnecessary technology duplication.\nProvide senior engineering support for WSO2 API Manager API development and integration activities, including API creation, publication, lifecycle management, governance, testing, monitoring, rate-limiting support, and coordination with applicable OJP service-delivery, networking, and security teams.\nLead API integrations supporting OJP's Identity and Access Management System (DIAMD), including integrations involving Okta and SailPoint and protocols such as SCIM, OAuth 2.0, and SAML, in coordination with the DIAMD support team.\nLead implementation and improvement of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), automated code and data testing, security scanning, deployment automation, Infrastructure as Code, compliance-as-code, configuration management, logging, monitoring, and release-management practices.\nSupport current-state OJP technology implementations while helping design and deploy future-state solutions from proof of concept through production and end-to-end integration.\nCoordinate with OJP networking and security teams for patching, vulnerability remediation, Authority to Operate or Authority to Test activities, and other responsibilities that cross product-family boundaries.\nLead code reviews, technical design reviews, engineering standards development, and technical-debt reduction efforts.\nEvaluate recurring engineering problems and recommend refactoring, automation, product consolidation, technology standardization, or modernization actions that improve maintainability, resilience, security, accessibility, and cost effectiveness.\nDevelop and use technical and product-delivery measures to improve visibility into product health, backlog age, cycle time, lead time to change, defect and rework trends, release readiness, reliability, and operational performance.\nSupport FinOps and cost-optimization activities by identifying opportunities to improve resource utilization and reduce unnecessary technology and operational costs.\nInvestigate and resolve assigned help desk tickets and technical issues involving Data Integration and DevSecOps products.\nMentor software engineers and help cross-functional product teams adopt consistent Agile, Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps), automated testing, secure-development, documentation, and continuous-improvement practices.\nPrepare and present technical findings, root-cause analyses, engineering recommendations, modernization options, and implementation roadmaps to Government technical and management stakeholders.\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience, consistent with applicable labor-category requirements.\nMinimum six (6) years of progressively responsible software engineering experience developing, enhancing, integrating, and maintaining enterprise applications.\nDemonstrated experience designing and implementing complex application enhancements, APIs, system integrations, and automated tests.\nExperience with Agile software development, Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps), continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), configuration management, and secure software development practices.\nExperience with Git-based source control and one or more CI/CD, build, deployment, or automation platforms.\nExperience developing or supporting RESTful APIs, web services, data integrations, and common authentication and authorization mechanisms.\nExperience with cloud-hosted or containerized applications and automated deployment practices.\nExperience troubleshooting complex application, integration, deployment, or production issues and performing root-cause analysis.\nStrong understanding of software design principles, automated testing, maintainability, reliability, and secure engineering practices.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills and demonstrated ability to collaborate with Government stakeholders and cross-functional technical teams.\nMust satisfy the citizenship, residency, background-investigation, and Public Trust requirements applicable to the task order.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience supporting DOJ, OJP, or another complex Federal enterprise or digital-service environment.\nExperience with one or more relevant platforms or tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Ansible Tower, Git or GitHub, Docker, AWS GovCloud, WSO2 API Manager, Splunk, StatusCake, Tenable, Acunetix, Guardium, or comparable technologies.\nExperience with API management, API lifecycle management, integration engineering, or identity integration using technologies or protocols such as Okta, SailPoint, SCIM, OAuth 2.0, SAML, REST, JSON, XML, or SOAP.\nExperience with Infrastructure as Code, compliance-as-code, automated security testing, CI/CD security scanning, monitoring, observability, FinOps, or automated operational reporting.\nExperience with enterprise architecture standards, technology rationalization, Alternatives Analysis, modernization roadmaps, or product/platform consolidation.\nRelevant training or certifications in API management, Azure DevOps, GitHub, cloud, DevOps, software engineering, security, or related technologies.\nIf you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.\nOriginal Posting:\nSeptember 30, 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.\nPay Range:\nPay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. 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