CPMC is seeking a Senior Developer for the United States Census Bureau's Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS), essential for safeguarding private information in the publicly released data from the 2020 Census. The DAS serves as the privacy-protection mechanism, processing the Census Edited File (CEF) with advanced privacy-preserving algorithms based on differential privacy to generate the Microdata Detail File (MDF). This role involves comprehensive support across the Application Engineering life cycle, including Application Engineering, DevOps, and Dashboard development.
The ideal candidate will be a senior, proactive full-stack software engineer experienced in managing infrastructure, CI/CD processes, cloud-native software development, and building and scaling web-based applications. We are looking for an individual who is adept at applying the latest design techniques, engaging in constructive discussions regarding their solutions, and demonstrating efficiency and thoroughness in the development and testing processes. This position is primarily remote but is based in the DMV area and is a full-time W2 employment role, requiring a Public Trust security clearance.
Primary responsibilities will focus on supporting development and successful execution of privacy enhancing technologies by the Science R&D team. Activities may include research of emerging languages/infrastructure/techniques, infrastructure automation/optimization, design, development, unit/verification testing, and documentation of code:
For ingesting, converting, and using input data
For creating the output and verifying the output matches specifications
Ensuring the successful execution and performance of a DAS run.
Additional engineering activities may include supporting/testing
Gurobi Optimizer setup and management
Spark setup, configuration and optimization
Implementation/optimization of fitness-for-use statistics (code quality metrics and reports).
Verify that external systems are set up, in place, and able to be accessed and utilized according to program specifications, prior to and after a DAS run.
Grafana dashboard development/maintenance
AWS optimization, integration, deployments and enhancements
Python, JavaScript, Bash.
Kubernetes, containerization, helm
Running, configuring and optimizing Spark applications
AWS: EKS, S3, RDS, EMR Lambda, Athena
Desired: R, SAS, STATA familiarity
Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work. Follows tasks to their logical conclusion and makes sure that everything has been done to the right standard. Good attention to detail.
Team Work: Able to enthuse and maintain project interest. Comfortable working both individually and as part of a team. Prepared to challenge ideas within a group in a constructive way.
Leadership: Acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges. Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization.
Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently to team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context. Excellent active listening skills.
Quantitative Management: Ability to determine process measures and track to determine process effectiveness and efficiency.
Problem Solving: Natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics. Ability to analyze problems and determine root cause, generating alternatives, evaluating and selecting alternatives and implementing solutions.
Results oriented: Able to drive things forward regardless of personal interest in the task.
