5+ years of professional software engineering experience
Strong Python skills; comfortable building and maintaining REST APIs (FastAPI or equivalent)
Solid containerization experience (Docker); comfortable operating in a Windows/WSL2 Docker Desktop environment as well as native Linux
Hands-on Kubernetes experience (K3s, RKE2, or similar lightweight distribution)
Linux server administration experience
Git fluency; experience with self-hosted Git (Gitea, GitLab, or similar)
Relational database experience
Including schema and access-role design
U.S. Person status, as required for access to ITAR-controlled technical data
Ability to pass a background check and meet screening requirements for access to NIST SP 800-171 r2-scoped systems