ABOUT NOOKS
Are you seeking an exciting and unique opportunity to grow and support our national security? As a startup, we are offering a limited-time opportunity to be an equity owner in a pioneering new industry. Nooks is pioneering Classified Infrastructure-as-a-Service (CIaaS) to provide government and industry partners with the fastest, most efficient access to classified infrastructure. We are building a nationwide network of accredited classified spaces and systems, ensuring that the best technologies equip our nation’s warfighters. At Nooks, we value innovation, collaboration, and a service-first mindset.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Nooks is hiring a Senior Software Engineer and Architect to build the next generation of secure infrastructure and software services powering mission-critical national security operations. You'll partner closely with our product team and our staff engineer to develop resilient, scalable systems that serve both government and industry customers across a growing network of classified environments.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll lead development of secure applications that underpin Nooks’ Classified Infrastructure-as-a-Service (CIaaS) platform. This role requires a strong expertise in backend technologies, comfort and competency with front-end work and a commitment to security, quality, automation, and scalability. You’ll contribute as an individual engineer while helping establish our engineering culture and mentoring others as the team grows.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Participate in the decisions on “how” we deliver software. (Architecture, languages, decision delegation, contracting, DIY, model selection and integration).
- Partner on the “what, when, who and why” of our software with Design and Product.
- Lead a major feature or application.
- Support junior engineering talent with mentorship and/or technical guidance.
- Build secure multi-tenant services on public cloud platforms like AWS or GCP.
- Build, architect, and consume APIs and backend services as part of the platform ecosystem, with an emphasis on automation, testing, and security.
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance and their impact on your team and others.
- Interact with customers and partners, assisting them with integration of our services.
THE SKILLSET:
- 6+ years of progressively responsible software engineering experience.
- Excellent communication skills; experience working with end-users to design and build solutions to their needs.
- A habit of self-directed learning of new technologies, and the ability to learn quickly and adapt to a fast-paced environment.
- Must have led the architecture, development, and building of backend services and APIs to ensure performance, security, and reliability.
- An ability to successfully own technical problems end-to-end.
- Have extensive experience with Python, FastAPI, Postgres, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
- Demonstrable, in-depth knowledge of at least one major commercial cloud platform and its associated services (e.g. AWS, GCP)
- Must have made enough mistakes, and booked enough wins, to know what not to build and what good looks like.
LOCATION
- Remote with preference for proximity to Washington D.C., Colorado Springs, or El Segundo, CA
ELIGIBILITY + CLEARANCE
- Candidate must be a United States citizen and capable of maintaining Security eligibility up to the Top Secret/SCI level within 45 days of hire.