Staff Systems Engineer

The Mission Starts Here 

TheIncLab engineers and delivers intelligent digital applications and platforms that revolutionize how our customers and mission-critical teams achieve success.  

We are where innovation meets purpose; and where your career can meet purpose as well. We are looking for a Staff Systems Engineer to collaborate closely with system architects, engineers, and government stakeholders to tackle the intricate challenges of systems engineering to national security and defense. We encourage you to apply and take the first step in joining our dynamic and impactful company. 

Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept 

As a Staff Systems Engineer, you will gain deep insights into customer missions and leverage your technical expertise to drive innovation, problem-solving, and the development of resilent system architecture.   You will be part of a collaborative and innovative team, and a growing company that understands the development of career pathways, and the success of each of its employees, is the essential ingredient to enable it to deliver for customers.  

You will have substantial opportunities to have meaningful impact.  You will collaborate with mission stakeholders and customers, and contribute to the design of complex, resilient systems architectures that support critical defense and national security missions.  You will work at the forefront of tactical systems, communication networks, cloud infrastructures, and unmanned autonomous systems for defense applications.  

What will you do?

This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role responsible for designing, implementing, and evolving complex software and platform systems. The Staff Systems Engineer will operate across cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, security controls, and application teams—serving as both a deep technical contributor and an architectural leader. 

The ideal candidate is a doer with architectural judgment: someone who can design systems, write code and infrastructure, lead proofs of concept, and gradually take ownership of technical roadmaps and mentoring as the organization grows. 

• Design and implement system architectures spanning cloud infrastructure, platforms, and applications. 

• Translate mission, security, and operational requirements into practical technical designs. 

• Develop and maintain reference architectures, design patterns, and system blueprints. 

• Evaluate architectural tradeoffs involving scalability, reliability, security, and cost. 

• Support architecture reviews and guide teams toward sustainable system designs. 

• Build and operate cloud-native systems using infrastructure-as-code and automation. 

• Develop prototypes and proofs of concept to validate architectural approaches. 

• Contribute directly to complex implementations when systems cross team or domain boundaries. 

• Troubleshoot and resolve high-impact production and integration issues. 

• Support database and platform-level concerns in partnership with cloud and data engineers. 

• Collaborate with Cloud Engineering and Build Platform teams to define secure, scalable platforms. 

• Help establish guardrails, golden paths, and secure-by-default patterns. 

• Integrate security, compliance, and observability requirements into system designs. 

• Partner with ISSOs to translate policy and RMF controls into implementable solutions. 

• Serve as a technical mentor and force multiplier for engineers across teams. 

• Influence technical roadmaps and platform evolution. 

• Participate in building the long-term architecture and platform function, with growth toward Principal-level scope as the team expands.  Add position bullets