Listing Description

Position Type: Hybrid - willing to go onsite ~2-3 days per week in the Hampton, VA area

Who we are: 

Raft (https://goraft.tech) is a customer-obsessed non-traditional small business with purposeful focus on Distributed Data Systems, Platforms at Scale, and Complex Application Development, with headquarters in Reston, VA. Our range of clients include 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.

Our team is rapidly growing and looking for an experienced Principal Cybersecurity Engineer to lead the modernization of legacy systems. You’ll also be joining our passionate team of high-impact problem solvers. We enjoy the challenges of human-centered design, security, and scale to create better outcomes for our federal agency partners. We are a remote-first and work completely in the open-source. 

What you will do: 

• Utilize DevSecOps methodology to secure Platform features/capabilities that are deployed onto Hybrid infrastructure consisting of on-prem and commercial environments.


• Lead the efforts to design and develop data applications using selected tools and frameworks 


• Work closely with the engineering team to integrate work into our production systems 


• Design, develop and secure applications as an individual contributor 


• Support business decisions with ad hoc analysis as needed 


• Be an active member in daily scrum meetings, bi-weekly sprint planning, and quarterly milestone planning, and as-needed pairing sessions 

Who you are: 

• Experienced in developing a Threat Detection framework for multi-tenant applications


• Passion and experience for automating assessment into code . Experience with OSCAL preferred


• Production level experience in AWS, SIEM, Terraform, and Identity management protocols like OIDC, SAML, LDAP.


• Passionate about container security on open source orchestration solutions like Kubernetes


• Passionate about finding zero day vulnerabilities and pen-testing.


• Higher education degree in Engineering or Computer Science 


• Our Principal level Cyber Security Engineers typically have at least 5 years industry experience

Preferred: 

• Production level threat detection 


• Have prior experience using open-source technologies 

Location: Hybrid (Hampton, VA)

What we will offer you:

• Highly competitive salary


• Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage


• 401(k) and company match


• Unlimited PTO + 11 paid holidays


• Education & training benefits


• Annual budget for your tech/gadgets needs


• Monthly box of yummy snacks to eat while doing meaningful work


• Remote, hybrid, and flexible work options


• Team off-site in fun places!


• Generous Referral Bonuses


• And More!

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.