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Cloud Software Engineer

Belay Technologies


Job Location:

Howard County, MD - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 21 August 2026 (19 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 18 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Belay Technologies has been voted Baltimore Business Journals (BBJ) Best Places to Work 2019 runner up in 2020 and a finalist in 2021!

Belay Technologies is seeking a Cloud Software Engineer to join our intel team.The Cloud Software Engineer develops maintains and enhances complex and diverse Big-Data Cloud systems based upon documented requirements. Directly contributes to all stages of back-end processing analyzing and indexing. Provides expertise in Cloud Computing Hadoop Eco-System including implementing Java applications Distributed Computing Information Retrieval (IR) and Object Oriented Design. Works individually or as part of a team. Reviews and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results. Resolves software problem reports. Utilizes software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment. Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs software reuse use of Commercial Off-the-shelf (COTS)/Government Off-the-shelf (GOTS) in place of new development and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.

Candidates should have the following qualifications:
  • TS/SCI Clearance with polygraph
  • Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university. Four (4) years of additional SWE or related experience may be substituted for a Bachelors degree. Masters degree can be substituted for two (2) years experience.
  • Shall have at least eight (8) years experience as a Software Engineer in software development/engineering including requirements analysis software development installation integration evaluation enhancement maintenance testing or problem diagnosis/resolution. The individual must be able to communicate directions and provide guidance to junior programmers/analysts as required.
  • Shall have at least six (6) years experience developing software developing software with high level languages such as Java C C JavaScript.
  • Shall have at least three (3) years experience developing software for Microsoft Windows or UNIX/Linux/Centos family of operating systems.
  • Shall have experience on the design and development of at least one Object Oriented system.
  • Shall have extensive experience in planning and accomplishing goals and complicated tasks and providing consultation on complex projects as top-level contributor or specialist.
  • Shall have a firm grasp of modern computer programming with a minimum of six (6) years experience in programming and development of application software for complex systems and software testing.
  • Shall have experience developing solutions integrating or extending FOSS/COTS products.
  • Shall have demonstrated technical writing skills and have generated technical documents in support of a software development project.

Candidates are desired to have the following skills:
  • Shall have familiarity with three or more of the skills and technologies listed in Table 1.

Table 1 Desired Skills and Technologies

Skills

Front End User Interface (UI) Development Middle-Tier Development Back-End Development Full Stack Development Agile Software Development Practices Application Programming Interface (API) principles Artificial Intelligence Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) Automated Testing Cloud Analytics Cloud-based System Administration Containerization Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD) Data Modeling DevOps Distributed Web Applications Firewall Administration Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Kanban Software Development Practices Large Language Models Machine Learning Microservices Monitoring and Alerting Network Engineering Recommender Services Relational Databases Role Based Access Control (RBAC) Scripting Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Systems Engineering Technical Documentation User Accessibility Virtual Machines Web Services

Commercial Technologies

Accumulo ActiveMQ Akka Amazon Web Services (AWS) Angular Ansible Apache Apache NiFi Apollo Artemis Atlassian Bash scripting Bootstrap Cassandra CentOS CoffeeScript CSS Cypress Docker Docker Compose Docker Swarm Drools Eclipse Elasticsearch ExtJS Flink Git Gitlab Gradle Grafana GWT Hadoop HAProxy Hazelcast Heron Hibernate HTML IDE Firebug Java JavaScript JBlocks Jenkins Jetty Jira/Confluence JMS jQuery JSON Kafka KeyDB Kibana Kubernetes Linux Logstash Maven MongoDB MBatis MySQL nginx OpenSSL Oracle PKI Certificate Administration Percona Postgres Prometheus Pulsar Puppet Python Rancher Redis RESTful Web Services SaltStack Scala Selenium SOAP Web Services Splunk Spring Spring Boot Spring Cloud Spring MVC/Beans SQL Squirrel Storm Subversion Swagger Sybase Terraform Terragrunt Tomcat Typescript Web Security XML Zookeeper



Perks and Benefits:
  • 8 weeks paid leave - 4 weeks of personal leave 3 Yay! days take off on your birthday11 paid holidays and optional leave up to 6 days through Belays volunteer program
  • 10% matching in 401(k) contributions vested on day one
  • $5000 annual training/tuition
  • Student Loan Repayment Program
  • 100% company-funded HSA
  • Rich medical coverage (100% coinsurance)
  • Dental coverage including orthodontia
  • Up to $420000 in life insurance premiums 100% company funded
  • Amazon Prime gym reimbursement monthly lunches games and prizes
  • Pet adoption program generous referral bonus program fun events and more!

At Belay we are committed to creating an environment where you can thrive both professionally and personally. We believe in transparency and fairness in compensation. Several factors influence final salary including but not limited to geographic location Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates relevant prior work experience education specific skills and competencies and certifications. Belay offers a competitive total compensation package that includes benefits and perks a flexible work-life balance and career development.

Salary Range: $190000 to $240000

Belay Technologies is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business located in Columbia Maryland (Baltimore/Washington area). Belay Technologies specializes in systems automation and full stack development. Belay Technologies provides leading technology and engineering solutions to the DoD as well as state-of-the-art commercial products. We hire software engineers web designers test engineers systems engineers systems administrators database engineers and other tech services. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion national origin gender sexual orientation gender identity age physical or mental disability genetic factors military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Required Experience:

Senior IC


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Belay Technologies provides leading-edge technology and engineering services to the DoD, as well as state-of-the-art commercial products. We are a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) in the Baltimore-Washington Area. We take the smartest approach, deliveri ... View more

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