System Software Engineer

System Software Engineer, Level II, Washington, D.C. area

A challenging position in computer software engineering. We are looking for an innovative software engineer who will drive all aspects of the software development lifecycle: requirements, design, development, test, and release to customer success.

Must have a minimum of 5 years of full-time experience in computer software engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Develop innovative software in small teams using cutting-edge technologies;
• Perform monitoring and performance tuning;
• Collaborate with program managers and prospects to gather and define requirements;
• Deliver projects on-time and to specifications with an appropriate level of quality;
• Develop automated functional tests;
• Set operational specifications and formulate software requirements;
• Collaborate with technical writers to create customer-relevant documentation;

Required Skills:

• Proficiency in C/C++;
• Experience with MS Windows and UNIX/Linux software development environments;
• Knowledge of dynamic linking and loading;
• Development of multithreaded applications;
• Networking and distributed computing;
• Inter-process communication;
• Experience with debugging tools such as gdb, strace, valgrind, totalview, etc.;
• Unix shell scripting;
• Experience with version control tools like CVS, SVN;
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.

Knowledge of the following operating systems and platforms: