Senior Software Engineer – Developer Experience & Code Quality

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Description

In the Homeland Sector, our software helps protect communities and keep important systems running safely. As we build more software, we need to make sure it stays efficient, reliable, and easy to improve over time.

Must live in the Reston area and be able to commute to the Leidos GHQ office. Flexible to work remote with the ability to commute to the corpore office as needed. 

This role plays a key part in th.

You’ll improve how software is built across the sector—making code simpler, reducing duplicion, and helping teams follow better practices. You’ll track things like how much code we have, how complex it is, and how well it’s tested, then use th informion to help teams improve.

You’ll also focus on making life better for developers by introducing modern tools and ways of working so teams can build software more easily and quickly.

This is a chance to make a big impact by improving how software is built across many projects th support important, real-world missions.

Primary Responsibilities:
•Drive software reuse and refactoring across the sector to reduce duplicion and improve code quality
•Establish and maintain software baselines and visibility into code assets across programs
•Define and analyze engineering metrics (e.g., code coverage, complexity, language composition) to guide improvements
•Improve the developer experience through better tools, workflows, and practices
•Partner with teams to standardize and modernize software approaches across programs
•Evalue and introduce new technologies and approaches, scaling wh works

Basic Qualificions:
•Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a reled field with 8+ years of relevant experience. Additional years experience may be used in lieu of a degree.
•Strong experience developing software in one or more modern languages (e.g., Java, Python, C++, JavaScript)•Experience improving code quality through refactoring, testing, and reducing technical debt
•Familiarity with software metrics and analysis tools (e.g., code coverage, complexity, stic analysis)
•Must live in the Reston area and be able to commute to the Leidos GHQ office. Flexible to work remote with the ability to commute to the corpore office as needed. 
•U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance

Preferred Qualificions:
•Experience leading or contributing to enterprise-wide code reuse, standardizion, or modernizion initiives
•Familiarity with developer experience (DevEx) improvements, including tooling, workflows, and plform engineering concepts
•Hands-on experience with stic analysis, code quality, and security scanning tools (e.g., SonarQube, Fortify, Checkmarx)
•Experience working in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and containerized architectures (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)•Knowledge of multiple programming languages and ability to work across diverse tech stacks
•Experience establishing or managing software baselines, inventories, or asset calogs
•Familiarity with open-source frameworks and stregies for evaluing and adopting new technologies
•Experience collecting and visualizing engineering metrics (e.g., dashboards, reporting tools)
•Background supporting federal or homeland security missions
•Active security clearance

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the stus quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

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Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compension or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, educion, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market da, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovions. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximely $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more informion, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. Th's why we craft compension packages th reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compension, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

Securing Your Da

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Commitment to Non-Discriminion

All qualified applicants will receive considerion for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, nional origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic informion, pregnancy, family structure, marital stus, ancestry, domestic partner stus, sexual oriention, gender identity or expression, veteran or military stus, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

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