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Software Engineer II - CTJ - TS/SCI

Swiftkey

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Location
Reston, VA
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Requirements

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TS/SCI clearance

Job overview

The Software Engineer II supports production reliability for large-scale products and services. The role investigates and resolves live-site issues, analyzes telemetry and metrics, and develops instrumentation, dashboards, and tools. It also drives incident reduction, contributes to scalable engineering solutions, and shares practices with other engineers. The posting requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and at least four years of technical engineering experience.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

CodingCC++C#JavaJavaScriptPythonPowerShellDistributed ServicesOn-Call OperationsProject ManagementCommunicationCollaboration

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science or Related Technical Field or Equivalent Experience4+ Years Technical Engineering Experience4+ Years PowerShell, C#, or C++ Experience

Full job description

The scale of our operations is enormous. We need people who enjoy analyzing complicated problems, coming up with creative solutions, working in focused teams to build things no-one has thought of before, all in the service of production reliability. Applies debugging tools and examines logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions through writing and developing code proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur for products. Conducts retrospective debugging of solutions to identify root causes of problems. Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site service and escalates as necessary. Reviews and writes issues postmortem and shares insights with the team. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Alerts stakeholders as to status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple problems and complex problems when appropriate. Responds within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. Drives efforts to reduce incident volume, looking globally at incidences and providing broad resolutions. Escalates issues to appropriate owners. Drives efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms. Drives sustaining feedback loops from telemetry resulting in subsequent designs. Creates outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards. Drives efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring). Drives the refinement of products through data analytics and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration. Builds, enhances, reuses, contributes to, and identifies new software developer tools to support other programs and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for products. Uses open source when possible. Begins to develop skills in other tools outside areas of expertise. Identifies internal tools and creates tools that will be useful for creating the product, determining if methods are still applicable for the current solution. Shares best practices and teaches others about new tools and strategies. Defines and develops standardized, repeatable, scalable solutions to guarantee quality. Embody our culture and values. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. 4+ years of experience with PowerShell, C#, or C++. Experience working on large-scale distributed services with on-call responsibilities. Ability to build and influence broadly towards common goals and priorities. Ownership for end-to-end project lifecycle with solid project management and communication skills.

How this job compares

Set against the 41,882 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Virginia median$129–205K/yr1,569 salary ranges
  • Virginia median$45–62/hr44 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,863 open Software Engineer jobs in Virginia and 41,882 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (34,350 postings).
Education
13,565 of the 41,882 open Software Engineer jobs (32%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

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