Cyber Software Developer/Engineer
Engineering and Product | Security Engineering
Arlington/Rosslyn, Virginia, United States
Position Summary
Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.
Work You’ll Do
As a Mid-Level Software Developer/Engineer, you will play a hands-on role in the design, development, testing, and ongoing maintenance of core applications and services that support critical business and mission outcomes. You’ll work across the full software development lifecycle—helping translate requirements into implementable designs, building well-structured components, and ensuring solutions are secure, performant, and reliable in production.
You will be expected to write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code, following established engineering standards and contributing to consistent patterns across the codebase. You’ll participate actively in peer code reviews (both giving and receiving feedback), collaborate with senior engineers on architecture and implementation decisions, and help identify opportunities to improve code quality, reduce technical debt, and strengthen automated testing.
In this role, you’ll contribute to debugging and troubleshooting issues, supporting releases, and improving observability through appropriate logging, metrics, and tracing where applicable. You’ll also work closely with cross-functional partners—such as product, quality assurance (QA), security, and operations—to validate requirements, manage dependencies, and ensure smooth delivery.
The Team
Deloitte’s Government & Public Services (GPS) practice – our people, ideas, technology and outcomes – is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.
Our Cyber Defense & Resilience offering assists clients in defending against advanced threats by transforming security operations, monitoring technology, data analytics, and threat intelligence. Helps manage and protect dynamic attack surfaces and provides rapid crisis and cyber incident response, ensuring clients can be ready for, respond to, and recover from business disruptions.
Qualifications
Required**: **
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Must be able to obtain and maintain the required TS/SCI clearance for this role
- Ability to travel 5-30%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
- 4+ years of experience in High-Performance code design and implementation using C/C++ (or similar C-family languages) or other strongly typed, low-level programming language such as Java or Rust
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
Preferred:
- Experience with Git
- Experience with Linux
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**Benefits**
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**Professional development**
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Requisition code: 323350
Job ID 323350