{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"144cef8558524a761b6760eb","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/144cef8558524a761b6760eb","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/144cef8558524a761b6760eb","title":"Senior Software Development Engineer III","description":"Advanced Resource Technologies, Inc. (ARTI) is currently recruiting for a Senior Software Development Engineer III to support the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). This position is full-time, exempt. Start date is immediate upon selection and public trust clearance processing as required.\nSUMMARY\nThe Senior Software Development Engineer III will support the GRACE Development Team by designing, building, and maintaining the cloud infrastructure and backend platforms that power ARPA-H's production AI assistant. This position leads the development of scalable, secure, and highly available agentic AI infrastructure while driving innovation across cloud architecture, AI orchestration, production operations, and software engineering best practices.\nPRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES\nDesign, develop, and maintain the cloud infrastructure supporting GRACE using Microsoft Azure services including Azure Functions, Azure API Management, Azure Container Apps, and Azure OpenAI Service.\nDevelop and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, data pipelines, vector databases, and document indexing systems supporting enterprise AI applications.\nDesign and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, semantic search capabilities, embeddings, and document ingestion workflows.\nDevelop and maintain multi-agent AI orchestration, Model Context Protocol (MCP) services, tool-calling frameworks, and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication capabilities.\nBuild highly available, secure, and resilient backend systems utilizing modern distributed system architecture and cloud-native design principles.\nDevelop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and release management processes.\nImplement authentication, authorization, identity management, and secure access controls utilizing Microsoft Entra ID and modern authentication standards.\nDevelop observability solutions including monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, performance metrics, alerting, and incident response capabilities.\nMonitor AI platform utilization, token consumption, cloud resource usage, and operational costs while optimizing platform performance and efficiency.\nImplement reliability engineering practices including fault tolerance, graceful degradation, retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, and disaster recovery capabilities.\nCollaborate with front-end developers, product managers, researchers, and UX designers to deliver high-quality AI-powered solutions.\nMentor software engineers while establishing engineering standards, architecture patterns, testing strategies, and code quality practices.\nEnsure compliance with federal cybersecurity, privacy, responsible AI, and cloud security requirements.\nParticipate in architecture reviews, Agile ceremonies, technical planning, and strategic engineering initiatives.\nJOB REQUIREMENTS\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline; Master's degree preferred or equivalent practical experience.\nMinimum of seven (7) years of professional software engineering experience developing and supporting enterprise backend systems.\nExtensive experience developing applications using Python and at least one additional backend programming language.\nDemonstrated expertise designing and deploying cloud-native applications on Microsoft Azure.\nExperience with Azure Functions, Azure API Management, Azure Container Apps, Azure OpenAI Service, and related Azure services.\nStrong experience with distributed systems, APIs, microservices, asynchronous programming, and cloud architecture.\nExperience building production AI applications utilizing LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), semantic search, vector databases, embeddings, and tool-calling frameworks.\nExperience implementing CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, or similar), and DevSecOps practices.\nExperience with containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.\nStrong understanding of authentication technologies including OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and Microsoft Entra ID.\nExperience supporting production systems, monitoring, incident response, and operational excellence.\nFamiliarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent-to-Agent (A2A) architectures, and multi-agent AI systems is highly desirable.\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.\nDemonstrated ability to lead engineering initiatives and mentor technical teams in a collaborative Agile environment.\nMandatory Requirement:\nApplicants selected for this position will be subject to a Government Security Investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for a Public Trust clearance.\nThe above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of the employee assigned to this job.\nAdvanced Resource Technologies, Inc. is committed to a work environment free of all forms of discrimination and is a member of the DHS E-Verify Program.\nAdvanced Resource Technologies, Inc. recruits and hires without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, military status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.","company":"Advanced Resource Technologies","rawCompany":"advanced resource technologies","city":"Washington","state":"DC","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-04T19:05:12.231Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1211.00","title":"Computer Systems Analysts","slug":"computer-systems-analysts"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Software Development Engineer III","description":"Advanced Resource Technologies, Inc. (ARTI) is currently recruiting for a Senior Software Development Engineer III to support the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). This position is full-time, exempt. Start date is immediate upon selection and public trust clearance processing as required.\nSUMMARY\nThe Senior Software Development Engineer III will support the GRACE Development Team by designing, building, and maintaining the cloud infrastructure and backend platforms that power ARPA-H's production AI assistant. This position leads the development of scalable, secure, and highly available agentic AI infrastructure while driving innovation across cloud architecture, AI orchestration, production operations, and software engineering best practices.\nPRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES\nDesign, develop, and maintain the cloud infrastructure supporting GRACE using Microsoft Azure services including Azure Functions, Azure API Management, Azure Container Apps, and Azure OpenAI Service.\nDevelop and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, data pipelines, vector databases, and document indexing systems supporting enterprise AI applications.\nDesign and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, semantic search capabilities, embeddings, and document ingestion workflows.\nDevelop and maintain multi-agent AI orchestration, Model Context Protocol (MCP) services, tool-calling frameworks, and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication capabilities.\nBuild highly available, secure, and resilient backend systems utilizing modern distributed system architecture and cloud-native design principles.\nDevelop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and release management processes.\nImplement authentication, authorization, identity management, and secure access controls utilizing Microsoft Entra ID and modern authentication standards.\nDevelop observability solutions including monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, performance metrics, alerting, and incident response capabilities.\nMonitor AI platform utilization, token consumption, cloud resource usage, and operational costs while optimizing platform performance and efficiency.\nImplement reliability engineering practices including fault tolerance, graceful degradation, retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, and disaster recovery capabilities.\nCollaborate with front-end developers, product managers, researchers, and UX designers to deliver high-quality AI-powered solutions.\nMentor software engineers while establishing engineering standards, architecture patterns, testing strategies, and code quality practices.\nEnsure compliance with federal cybersecurity, privacy, responsible AI, and cloud security requirements.\nParticipate in architecture reviews, Agile ceremonies, technical planning, and strategic engineering initiatives.\nJOB REQUIREMENTS\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline; Master's degree preferred or equivalent practical experience.\nMinimum of seven (7) years of professional software engineering experience developing and supporting enterprise backend systems.\nExtensive experience developing applications using Python and at least one additional backend programming language.\nDemonstrated expertise designing and deploying cloud-native applications on Microsoft Azure.\nExperience with Azure Functions, Azure API Management, Azure Container Apps, Azure OpenAI Service, and related Azure services.\nStrong experience with distributed systems, APIs, microservices, asynchronous programming, and cloud architecture.\nExperience building production AI applications utilizing LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), semantic search, vector databases, embeddings, and tool-calling frameworks.\nExperience implementing CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, or similar), and DevSecOps practices.\nExperience with containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.\nStrong understanding of authentication technologies including OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and Microsoft Entra ID.\nExperience supporting production systems, monitoring, incident response, and operational excellence.\nFamiliarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent-to-Agent (A2A) architectures, and multi-agent AI systems is highly desirable.\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.\nDemonstrated ability to lead engineering initiatives and mentor technical teams in a collaborative Agile environment.\nMandatory Requirement:\nApplicants selected for this position will be subject to a Government Security Investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for a Public Trust clearance.\nThe above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this classification. 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