Big Data Software Engineer

Fort Meade, MD TS/SCI with Polygraph Full-Time $130,000 – $175,000 Actively hiring Active TS/SCI clearance required. Benz Technology is unable to sponsor security clearances. U.S. citizenship required. About the Role You will develop and sustain distributed big data infrastructure and applications built on Hadoop-ecosystem technologies. This role spans both active development of data processing pipelines and hands-on operational troubleshooting of cluster components. Work includes writing backend Java applications that interact with large-scale distributed storage and compute systems. Responsibilities Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot Hadoop, MapReduce, Accumulo, and Zookeeper clusters including node-level remediation Develop MapReduce applications for large-scale distributed data processing Write and maintain Accumulo iterators, scanners, and ingest pipelines supporting both streaming and bulk import workflows Author and execute Ansible playbooks for infrastructure automation and configuration management Support Kubernetes-based deployments and troubleshoot containerized workloads Sustain and improve data warehouse processing pipelines Diagnose and resolve cluster-level failures including HDFS node issues and Accumulo tablet server faults Required Qualifications Java development Hadoop and MapReduce (deployment, development, and troubleshooting) Apache Accumulo (iterators, scanners, bulk and streaming ingest) Apache Zookeeper administration HDFS operations and node-level troubleshooting Ansible playbook development and execution Kubernetes deployment and troubleshooting Desired Qualifications Familiarity with data warehouse architectures and processing pipelines Experience sustaining production big data clusters in an operational environment Why engineers join Benz 15% employer 401(k) — vested day one, no match required 28 paid days off per year $7,500 annual tuition reimbursement $2,500 training & development budget 28 years in business — our engineers stay through recompetes