Open-source engineering for defense, intelligence, and national security
Altamira is a national-security-focused engineering and analytics firm built around open-source and cloud-native tooling—Python, Java, Go, Rust, Spring Boot, React, and AWS dominate their stack. They're actively adopting Kubernetes and Prefect while scaling infrastructure automation, zero-trust architecture, and CI/CD security practices. Hiring is accelerating across engineering (86 roles) and security (52 roles), with mid-to-senior talent focus, signaling heavy investment in compliance-hardened, production-grade systems for classified and regulated environments.
Altamira Technologies, founded in 1999 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, delivers engineering and analytics services to the U.S. defense, intelligence, and homeland security sectors. The firm operates across 201–500 employees and specializes in solving complex national-security problems using open standards in architecture, data, and security. Their active project portfolio spans backend services for data processing and search, infrastructure-as-code automation, zero-trust security architecture, and CI/CD hardening—all built to operate in mission-critical, classified, and heavily audited environments. The company is currently hiring across the United States.
Core stack: Python, Java, Go, Rust, SQL, React, Vue, Spring Boot, AWS, and Jenkins. Also uses R, MATLAB, Tableau for analytics, and ArcGIS for geospatial work. Recently adopting Kubernetes and Prefect for orchestration.
Projects include zero-trust security architecture, infrastructure-as-code automation, CI/CD security integration, internal developer platforms, AI/ML sandboxes, data ingestion workflows, and backup/disaster-recovery solutions—all designed for classified and mission-critical environments.
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