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Lead Knowledge Graph Engineer (All levels Software Engineer)

Redwire Space
United States, Virginia, Chantilly
14401 Penrose Place (Show on map)
Jul 14, 2026
Redwire is an innovative space and defense technology company driving advanced capabilities across the aerospace sector. We are looking for a leader who can contribute to concept of operations development, mission solution design, and strategic analysis for spacecraft programs supporting National Security Space. This includes work spanning space domain awareness, space resiliency, mission autonomy, structures, sensors, and nextgeneration space systems. The Data Software Engineer serves as the technical authority responsible for architecting, scaling, and governing the graphcentric data infrastructure that powers the company's simulation, analytics, and digitalengineering ecosystems. This role blends backend engineering, highperformance data processing, and advanced graphbased modeling to ensure that data relationships, APIs, and integration workflows are coherent, scalable, secure, and aligned with mission and product objectives. You will design and optimize knowledgegraph schemas, build highthroughput data services in Python/C++/Rust, define robust dataaccess and governance patterns, and collaborate closely with simulation, systems engineering, frontend, and DevOps teams to deliver reliable, missioncritical data capabilities across aerospace, defense, and other regulated environments. Major Responsibilities Architect and scale knowledgegraph infrastructure supporting simulation, analytics, and digitalengineering workflows. Design and optimize graph schemas for large, interconnected, and evolving data domains. Develop highthroughput backend services in Python, C++, or Rust for dataintensive workloads. Implement robust dataaccess layers including indexing, query optimization, and governance patterns. Build and maintain secure APIs across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC ecosystems. Ensure reliability and observability through logging, metrics, tracing, contract validation, and automated testing. Collaborate across engineering teams to define clean integration boundaries and support missioncritical workflows. Support CI/CD and DevOps integration for backend services and data pipelines. Enforce secure data practices including authentication, authorization, secrets management, and encryption. Ideal Experience STEM foundation - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or STEM related field, or equivalent experience. Backend & dataservice development - 1-5 years building backend systems, APIs, and datadriven services. API design expertise - REST, GraphQL, schema design, versioning, and integration best practices. Highperformance backend programming - Python, C++, or Rust for distributed and performancecritical systems. Database schema & modeling - Relational (PostgreSQL), graph (Neo4j), and document databases. Dataaccess architecture - Indexing, query optimization, and governance for largescale data domains. Service reliability fundamentals - Observability, error handling, contract validation, automated testing. API & data security - Authentication, authorization, secrets management, encryption. CI/CD integration - Experience integrating backend services into CI/CD pipelines. Crossfunctional collaboration - Ability to work with simulation, systems engineering, frontend, and DevOps teams. Desired Skills Multiprotocol API development - REST, gRPC, SOAP, GraphQL. Graphbased data modeling - Metadata lineage, digitalthread architectures, agentreasoning structures. Highthroughput data APIs - Streaming systems, binary formats, performance tuning. HPCadjacent workflows - Simulation data, scientific computation, datadense analytics. Microservice architectures - Containerized deployments and servicetoservice communication. API design for diverse consumers - Interfaces for UIs, pipelines, and automated systems. Regulated industry exposure - Aerospace, defense, or other highintegrity domains. Opensource contributions - Backend frameworks, API libraries, database tooling, schema governance systems. Security eligibility - U.S. Citizen; able to obtain and maintain DoD Secret clearance (TS/SCI preferred). Grow with us as we innovate the next generation capabilities for a new era of space exploration! We offer a highly competitive benefits package along with a commitment to our core values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact, Inclusion, and Excellence. Don'tmeet every single requirement above? No worries. We want people who can grow,collaborateand build a stronger team. We strive to build a diverse and inclusive culture, so ifyou'reexcited about this job posting, we encourage you to apply. *You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.* Redwire Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with MIS is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status. All offers of employment at Redwire Space are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check. To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the Click Here