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Raft
Oahu, United States5 months ago
160,000 – 200,000 USD
per year
Grade
Senior
Experience
from 6 years
Work format
Onsite
English level
B2, upper-intermediate
An email or a Telegram message to the recruiter
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.
Raft is a customer-obsessed non-traditional defense tech company dedicated to empowering U.S. military and government agencies with cutting-edge AI/ML and data solutions. We are a leader in autonomous data fusion and Agentic AI, with a purposeful focus on Distributed Data Systems, Platforms at Scale, and Complex Application Development. With headquarters in McLean, VA, our range of clients includes innovative federal and public agencies leveraging design thinking, cutting-edge tech stack, and cloud-native ecosystem. We build digital solutions that impact the lives of millions of Americans.
Raft builds mission-critical data, AI, and operational platforms that process high-volume sensor, operational, and mission data across multiple classification levels. These platforms must run reliably in cloud-hosted, classified on-premises, disconnected, and edge environments where security, repeatability, and customer trust are non-negotiable.
As a Senior Engineer, you will own the secure delivery patterns behind [R]DP, [R]AP, [R]AIMS, and Raft’s MLOps deployments. You will design and harden Kubernetes-based platform architecture, improve GitOps and CI/CD workflows, automate compliance evidence, mentor engineers, and work directly with software, data, ML, security, and customer teams to keep mission systems deployable and trustworthy.
This role requires more than infrastructure fluency. You should be comfortable reading application code, understanding data pipelines, debugging distributed systems, navigating regulated delivery constraints, and making pragmatic tradeoffs between security, delivery speed, operability, and mission urgency. You will shape the golden paths that teams use to deliver secure mission software: Helm and GitOps patterns, hardened runtime configuration, supply chain controls, observability, compliance automation, ML serving, and deployment practices across cloud and classified environments.
Raft’s platform deployments in Hawaii are secure, reliable, repeatable, observable, and supportable across cloud, on-premises, classified, and disconnected environments.
Engineering teams move faster because the delivery paths, Helm patterns, security gates, and operational runbooks are clear, durable, and actively maintained.
Security and compliance posture is continuously maintained through automation, evidence, reviewable configuration, and well-understood ownership.
When production issues occur, you can trace the system from source to runtime, separate facts from assumptions, and drive the team toward root cause and durable remediation.
Junior engineers grow under your mentorship, and customer feedback becomes repo-managed improvement rather than one-off fixes or tribal knowledge.
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.
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.
Active Secret clearance required to start; TS/SCI eligibility required
Salary Range: $160,000.00 - $200,000.00
Work Type: Onsite — Oahu, HI; candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to Hawaii Up to 25% travel
What we will offer you:
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.
Who we are: Raft is a customer-obsessed non-traditional defense tech company dedicated to empowering U.S. military and government agencies with cutting-edge AI/ML and data solutions. We are a leader in autonomous data fusion and Agentic AI, with a purposeful focus on Distributed Data Systems, Platforms at Scale, and Complex Application Development. With headquarters in McLean, VA, our range of clients includes innovative federal and public agencies leveraging design thinking, cutting-edge tech stack, and cloud-native ecosystem. We build digital solutions that impact the lives of millions of Americans.
About the role: Raft builds mission-critical data, AI, and operational platforms that process high-volume sensor, operational, and mission data across multiple classification levels. These platforms must run reliably in cloud-hosted, classified on-premises, disconnected, and edge environments where security, repeatability, and customer trust are non-negotiable.
As a Senior Engineer, you will own the secure delivery patterns behind [R]DP, [R]AP, [R]AIMS, and Raft’s MLOps deployments. You will design and harden Kubernetes-based platform architecture, improve GitOps and CI/CD workflows, automate compliance evidence, mentor engineers, and work directly with software, data, ML, security, and customer teams to keep mission systems deployable and trustworthy.
This role requires more than infrastructure fluency. You should be comfortable reading application code, understanding data pipelines, debugging distributed systems, navigating regulated delivery constraints, and making pragmatic tradeoffs between security, delivery speed, operability, and mission urgency. You will shape the golden paths that teams use to deliver secure mission software: Helm and GitOps patterns, hardened runtime configuration, supply chain controls, observability, compliance automation, ML serving, and deployment practices across cloud and classified environments.
What You’ll Do
What we are looking for:
Highly preferred:
What Success Looks Like Raft’s platform deployments in Hawaii are secure, reliable, repeatable, observable, and supportable across cloud, on-premises, classified, and disconnected environments.
Engineering teams move faster because the delivery paths, Helm patterns, security gates, and operational runbooks are clear, durable, and actively maintained.
Security and compliance posture is continuously maintained through automation, evidence, reviewable configuration, and well-understood ownership.
When production issues occur, you can trace the system from source to runtime, separate facts from assumptions, and drive the team toward root cause and durable remediation.
Junior engineers grow under your mentorship, and customer feedback becomes repo-managed improvement rather than one-off fixes or tribal knowledge.
Clearance Requirements: Active Secret clearance required to start; TS/SCI eligibility required
Salary Range: $160,000.00 - $200,000.00
Work Type: Onsite — Oahu, HI; candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to Hawaii Up to 25% travel
What we will offer you:
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.
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.
We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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