Rome, NY; Hanscom AFB; NCR Area Hybrid Full-time USD 140,000 – 190,000 / year

Raft is hiring a Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Build data infrastructure and platforms using streaming frameworks such as Apache Kafka, Flink, and Kafka Streams
  • Build Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) pipelines to enable comprehensive data operations
  • Leverage software engineering principles to architect, develop, and implement large scale streaming applications

Requirements

  • 7+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Experience with building and managing fault-tolerant, data-intensive platforms using popular streaming technologies such as Kafka, Pinot, or Flink
  • Experience with large-scale relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch to handle low-latency requirements
  • Experience in data management including ETL processing, data governance, and data storage
  • Experience with building and deploying software in cloud-native environments
  • Experience diagnosing and resolving container deployment issues within Kubernetes environments
  • Experience using a variety of package managers/dependency managers including Maven, Gradle, and NPM
  • Deep knowledge of software design and architecture patterns
  • Obtain Security+ certification within the first 90 days of employment with Raft
  • Active Secret Clearance to start and ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret

Nice to Have

  • Experience with Kubernetes
  • Experience with monitoring (i.e. Prometheus, Grafana) and logging (i.e. Fluentbit, Kibana, Loki) solutions in cloud-native environments
  • Solid understanding of Helm Charts
  • Experience or knowledge of service mesh technologies, such as Istio
  • Experience with supporting enterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure
  • Experience in automation languages like Python or GoLang

Benefits

  • Highly competitive salary
  • Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) and company match
  • Take as you need PTO + 11 paid holidays
  • Education & training benefits
  • Generous Referral Bonuses
  • And More!

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — Rome, NY, Hanscom, NCR (National Capital Region)

Our Vision Statement

We bridge the gap between humans and data through radical transparency and our obsession with the mission.

Our Customer Obsession

We will approach every deliverable like it's a product. We will adopt a customer-obsessed mentality. As we grow, and our footprint becomes larger, teams and employees will treat each other not only as teammates but customers. We must live the customer-obsessed mindset, always. This will help us scale and it will translate to the interactions that our Rafters have with their clients and other product teams that they integrate with. Our culture will enable our success and set us apart from other companies.

Our culture will enable our success and set us apart from other companies. How do we get there?

Public-sector modernization is critical for us to live in a better world. We, at Raft, want to innovate and solve complex problems. And, if we are successful, our generation and the ones that follow us will live in a delightful, efficient, and accessible world where out-of-box thinking, and collaboration is a norm. Raft’s core philosophy is Ubuntu: I Am, Because We are. We support our “nadi” by elevating the other Rafters. We work as a hyper collaborative team where each team member brings a unique perspective, adding value that did not exist before. People make Raft special. We celebrate each other and our cognitive and cultural diversity. We are devoted to our practice of innovation and collaboration.

Additional Information

  • This is a U.S. based position. All of the programs we support require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment.
  • All work must be conducted within the continental U.S.
  • Domestic travel up to 35% to customer sites
Required Skills
Data GovernanceKubernetesMonitoring
About company
Raft

Raft delivers scalable AI, data integration, and resilience, enhancing mission clarity and operational success. The company builds operator-first, software-first data and AI products that adapt to the mission and conform to the operator, enabling faster, trusted decisions anywhere, anytime.

Modern warfare is software-driven, and Raft is the foundation it’s built on. Their products unify and federate data from every sensor, system, and domain into one live, operational picture, while enabling trusted human-AI partnership and scaling from the tactical edge to enterprise environments.

Founded by Shubhi Mishra, Raft focuses on solving the hardest problems for the Department of Defense and public agencies, ensuring every decision is informed, trusted, and mission-ready across complex, data-saturated environments.

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