Software Engineering Manager – Developer Portal

Software Engineering Manager Developer Portal

This is not a maintenance role. This is a reinvention role.

We are seeking aSoftware Engineering Managerwho combines deep technical expertise with strong architectural instincts and the ability to drive innovation across this role you will serve as athought leader and lead engineerin the design and development ofan Internal Developer Portal that exposes templated offerings to developers for quickly provisioning resources and creating environments as part of a standardized developer experience across all of Leidos.

You will define technical direction evaluate emerging technologies prototype new capabilities and guide engineering teams in building production-ready systems. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection ofAI developer experience and platform engineering and who enjoys shaping strategy as much as writing code.

This is a role for builders who bias toward action who believe disruption can coexist with rigor and who want to apply cutting-edge AI to the problems that matter most.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Serve as thearchitectural leadfor developer platforms establishing patterns reference implementations and best practices.
• Design scalable secure and resilient software systems that integrate Infrastructure as Code containerization and development best practices for security compliance and architecture.
• Drive technical roadmap for next-generation software acceleration toolsincluding developer platforms tooling containers and CI/CD.
• Lead architecture reviews evaluate new technologies and set engineering standards for developer productivity and environment management.

Hands-On Engineering

• Build high-quality software with modern languages and frameworks (e.g. Kubernetes Terraform GitOps).
• Develop pipelines and services that enable developer acceleration and speed of delivery.
• Prototype early concepts to rapidly and transition successful prototypes into robust production systems.
• Integrate COTS and open source software into mature robust offerings for developers to utilize.

Collaboration & Influence

• Partner with product UX and platform teams to define features user journeys and developer experience goals.
• Act as atechnical mentorto senior and mid-level engineers; cultivate a culture of excellence and continuous learning.
• Collaborate closely with research data and cybersecurity teams to ensure solutions are safe secure and aligned with mission needs.
• Represent the engineering team in internal and external forums contributing to thought leadership in development and software engineering modernization.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree and 12 years experience in software engineering including significant experience at the senior/principal/architect level.
• Expertise in designing and building distributed systems developer tools or platform engineering products.
• Hands-on experience implementing automated development pipelines and CI/CD infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes architectures Infrastructure as Code and software automation.
• Strong knowledge of software security RMF controls and secure development practices
• Deep understanding of software design patterns CI/CD DevSecOps and cloud-native architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Strong coding proficiency in at least two modern languages (Python Go Java TypeScript etc.).
• Ability to drive technical strategy influence cross-functional teams and communicate complex ideas clearly.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience deploying and utilizing GitOps platforms (e.g. ArgoCD Fleet).
• Background building developer experience (DevX) tools integration of pipelines and cloud/on-prem deployments.
• Experience with hardening containers and providing versioned artifact baselines for enterprise use
• Familiarity with cybersecurity secure-by-design principles or government/missions systems (if relevant).
• Prior role as a thought leader principal engineer architect or technical founder.

If youre looking for comfort keep scrolling. At Leidos we outthink outbuild and outpace the status quo because the mission demands it. Were not hiring followers. Were recruiting the ones who disrupt provoke and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. Were already at step 30 and moving faster than anyone else dares.

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