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Software Developers (Systems Software)

Posted September 02, 2026
Full Time $130,000 - $260,000 / year

Job Overview

REQUIRED:  Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
LOCATION:  Full-time onsite in Chantilly, VA

As a Software Developer (Systems Software), you’ll design and maintain custom applications within the AWS environment, ensuring reliability, accreditation, and security at every layer. You’ll work with clean, well‑structured code, manage repositories, and support database services that keep critical data flowing. 
   
Who We Are:
We offer advanced services in data science, data engineering, software engineering, AI solutions, cybersecurity, and IT program management.

Passionate Integrity, Driven by Excellence
Ardent Principles offers a competitive salary range and a comprehensive, industry‑leading benefits package designed to support long‑term stability and employee well‑being. We provide more than a position—we offer a workplace committed to excellence, integrity, and mission‑focused impact.  Our mission is to act as a bridge between satisfied clients and fulfilled employees, ensuring that your job and well-being are our top priorities because your satisfaction leads to the success of our clients.

Join us as we continue building the future of secure, high‑impact solutions.

Key Responsibilities and Experience needed

In this challenging yet rewarding role, you are an integral part of what brings our Company's mission to life. You must have the following required skills, certifications and demonstrated experience in and/or with:
  • Working requirements related to data collection and exploitation workflows.
  • Leading agile development teams.
  • Working with diverse user bases with varying levels of comfort with data and technology; understanding user needs and tailoring user assistance specifically to the needs of the user.
  • Guiding and training users in best practices in how to use enterprise technologies or applications.
  • Presenting, documenting, and maintaining instructions for using new technologies and data-driven workflows.
  • Decomposing user needs, drafting actionable requirements, and communicating requirements for technical solutions to development teams.

Highly Desired Qualifications

Other skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not mandatory to perform the work, include:
  • Creating and maintaining resources within the Sponsor's Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment.
  • Ensuring all security vulnerabilities are addressed as appropriate by severity and maintain security accreditation.
  • Maintaining all source code in Sponsor-wide, remote Git repository.
  • Writing, testing, debugging, deploying, and performing timely operations and maintenance (O&M) on custom applications.
  • Administering database services.
  • Performing data collection, cleaning, and formatting.

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