Senior Software Engineer – Job Description Who We Are:

Kudu Dynamics is Leidos Owned Company, forged out of a decade of experience in computer network operations and staffed with talent who have built, overseen, and enhanced capabilities throughout the entire USG arsenal. Our team of hackers and engineers have experience spanning centuries of research, development, and operations missions - across desktop, mobile, IoT, and embedded platforms. Kudu Dynamics, a Leidos company is uniquely qualified to anticipate tomorrow’s threats and build the next generation of capabilities.

Job Description:

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our agentic first software development team. Join us as we build agentic software supply chain security products, extending our already stellar team of software developers, reverse engineers, and vulnerability researchers. The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for architecting, building, and maintaining software supply chain security products from end-to-end. Knowledge of and experience building products for Software Supply Chain security is required, including SCA, SBOMs, vulnerability management, SAST and DAST tooling, and integrations.

Responsibilities Include:

• Proposing and implementing agentic software frameworks and practices for effective, high quality product development with multi-disciplinary software engineering teams.

• Reviewing output of peers and agents in support of strong autonomous evaluation and validation frameworks.

• Designing and developing software products with robust testing frameworks using agentic tooling to meet product milestone objectives

• Working closely with other members of the software product development team and internal and external stakeholders to define product features, establish success criteria and measurement, and produce and demonstrate working proof-of-concept and product demonstrations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 15+ years of professional software engineering, engineering management, or product development experience.

• Experience using agentic tooling for writing and maintaining production code, managing cloud infrastructure, and release management frameworks.

• Experience leading engineering teams, and owning technical product development efforts from ideation to production.

• Experience with managing software deployments, networks, and production infrastructure at scale.

• Experience deploying software clusters for online/cloud, as well as on-prem or air-gapped installations.

Nice-to-have Qualifications:

• Experience with building autonomous agentic software analysis pipelines

• Experience with concurrency patterns in large scale distributed analysis systems

• Experience working with columnar data warehouses and ETL

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

April 24, 2026

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.