Senior Mission Software Engineer, Public Sector

What you'll do

• Embed with government customers to understand their mission, scope the problem, and turn it into working software.
• Own delivery end-to-end: design, build, deploy, and maintain solutions at customer sites, from prototype to stable production.
• Build robust backend systems and data integrations that connect customer environments to Scale's platform and back.
• Partner with product and engineering to feed field signals back into the roadmap, so the patterns you build once become capabilities the whole team can reuse.
• Serve as the technical point of contact for customer stakeholders, guiding adoption and maximizing mission impact.

What we're looking for

Required

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in customer-facing, forward-deployed, or government contexts.
• Strong production coding in Python and TypeScript (or comparable modern languages).
• Comfort across the stack, including cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containers, Linux, and networking fundamentals.
• Ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and make sound trade-offs under pressure.
• An active TS/SCI clearance.

Bonus

• Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models.
• Familiarity with Node and React, Kubernetes and Docker, and Terraform.
• Data engineering background covering ETL pipelines, data modeling, and data governance.

Location and travel

This role requires significant time on-site with customers. Expect 25% travel with up to 50% travel as necessary, and/or relocation to Washington DC or St. Louis.