Application Developer/Reverse Engineer Level 3

Job Title: Application Developer/Reverse Engineer Level 3

Client Job ID: TTO18-039

Location: Maryland (R&E)

Contract: QUARTERCARAT

Clearance: TS/SCI w/Poly

Salary Range: $215,000 - $225,000 yearly

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You will act as a Software Engineer and Reverse Engineer in order to develop cutting edge security tools in a fast-paced, agile environment. Your work will be delivering on the client’s national security mission, where you will work closely with analysts, data scientists and other software engineers. You will be expected to work largely independently, pursuing opportunities that present themselves from your research, and following up with customer needs. The customer, in CNO’s Alternate Tradecraft Product Group, will provide opportunities to quickly adapt and deploy new security products, allowing your tools to be used within weeks, not years.  

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Responsibilities:

• Develop Python applications to automate analysis and operational workflows 

• Reverse Engineer network traffic and web applications 

• Work with customers to collect requirements and ensure proper functionality 

• Coordinate with team of software developers to incorporate new technologies and leverage shared libraries 

• Manage dataflow and formatting to integrate into client systems

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Required Skills:

• Production-grade software development experience in Python. 

• Familiarity with HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, and other common web traffic 

• Experience with Burp Suite, browser developer tools, or Wireshark to monitor network communications 

• Service containerization and deployment with Docker/Kubernetes. 

• Familiarity with Git/Gitlab. 

• Familiarity with AI-assisted code development (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, etc.) 

• Atlassian Tools (Jira, Confluence).

Desired Skills

• Experience prototyping web applications (JavaScript). 

• Analyzing cyber security-related data sets (network traffic, OS events). 

• Knowledge of end-to-end SIGINT collection and analysis systems. 

• Experience with production CNO capabilities and operations. 

• Experience developing or reverse engineering mobile applications and communications. 

• Capable of designing and manipulating Gitlab CI/CD automated builds

YOE Requirement:

• 12 B.S. or 10 yrs. w/ M.S., 4 yrs. of additional SWE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.