Software Engineer, Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton

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Work type: On-site
Location: McLean, VA
Salary: $112,800–$257,000 / yr
Posted: 1 day ago
Closes: Sep 2, 2026

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About Booz Allen Hamilton

Booz Allen Hamilton is a management and technology consulting firm that provides analytics, digital, engineering, and cybersecurity solutions primarily to U.S. government agencies and commercial clients. Industry: Management & Technology Consulting

Booz Allen Hamilton currently has 694 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $86,800–$198,000 across 682 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Lead

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Join Booz Allen as a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer on their cutting-edge Cybersecurity team, where you will design, build, and deploy new capabilities using Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) software. Your daily tasks include integrating cybersecurity tools end-to-end to create defensive solutions for customers, leveraging AI coding tools for rapid development, and working independently with ambiguous requirements. You must have 7+ years of experience in Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript (React), data storage technologies like SQL or Graph databases, cloud platforms such as AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and system-to-system integration using APIs. Additionally, you should possess strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively on a high-velocity engineering team.

Skills

Python React SQL AWS Docker Kubernetes API GitHub Actions GitLab CI/CD LLM Agentic AI RAG MCP DevSecOps Static Code Analysis Dynamic Code Analysis Penetration Testing

What you'll do

Design and build new cybersecurity capabilities using agentic AI software.
Integrate advanced cybersecurity tools end-to-end to deploy defensive solutions.
Rapidly scaffold, implement, review, and test new software features with AI.
Distill complex requirements into actionable engineering tasks for implementation.
Estimate complexity, sequence, and implement capability independently against roadmap.

What we're looking for

7+ years of experience in Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript (including React)
7+ years of expertise in data storage solutions like SQL, Document, or Graph databases
7+ years working with Cloud and Containers technologies such as AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
4+ years of system-to-system integration development using APIs
Experience with Agentic AI, LLM, RAG, MCP implementation

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