ABOUT THE ROLE
Second Front Systems (2F) is seeking an ambitious and visionary Engineering Manager to join our mission-driven team. We are a dynamic, fast-growing entrepreneurial company at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and national security, committed to delivering transformative solutions that empower our nation’s defenders. This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of a company that is redefining the way software is delivered and secured in the defense sector.
At 2F, we thrive on innovation and purpose, combining a startup’s agility with a clear mission to support national security. You will be at the forefront of driving the engineering strategy behind the deployment and scaling of our revolutionary Game Warden platform—an industry-leading tool that is accelerating the secure adoption of mission-critical SaaS solutions for the U.S. government. If you’re ready to contribute to a team that values ingenuity, collaboration, and impact, we want to hear from you
The Engineering Manager will lead a team of talented engineers building and scaling Game Warden, our flagship platform enabling secure software delivery to government environments. You will drive technical execution, mentor team members, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver impactful outcomes aligned with 2F’s mission and goals.
Note: Additionally, candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:
DC/Maryland/Virginia
Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
Denver/Colorado Springs, CO
Dallas/Fort Worth/Austin, TX
Lead and mentor a distributed team of engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Drive execution across key technical initiatives that enhance scalability, reliability, and performance of 2F’s core platforms.
Partner closely with Product, Platform, and Security teams to define roadmaps, prioritize work, and deliver against milestones.
Provide technical guidance and architectural oversight, ensuring alignment with best practices and compliance requirements.
Collaborate with stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into actionable engineering plans.
Recruit, onboard, and develop top engineering talent in alignment with 2F’s mission, values, and culture.
Contribute to the evolution of 2F’s engineering processes, tooling, and delivery frameworks as we scale toward Series D and beyond.
6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing or leading technical teams.
Demonstrated success leading distributed teams in high-growth or startup environments.
Deep understanding of modern software development practices, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
Strong technical acumen paired with strategic thinking and effective communication.
Proven ability to balance execution, people leadership, and technical excellence.
U.S. citizenship required; ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance preferred.
Experience building and scaling SaaS or platform products within highly regulated or security-sensitive industries (e.g., defense, government, healthcare).
Familiarity with secure software development frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, SOC 2).
Prior experience with infrastructure-as-code, observability, and automation frameworks.
Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives in collaboration with Product, Security, and Operations.
Strong understanding of agile methodologies and experience driving continuous improvement across teams.
Active security clearance or previous work in cleared environments.
Our Tech Stack:
Backend: GoLang and Rust
Frontend: Typescript and React/Next
Platform: Docker/Containers/Kubernetes
Cloud: AWS/GCP/Azure
SDLC: Git/Gitlab
The expected base salary range for this role is $210,000-$230,000. Final compensation will be based on factors such as experience, skills, level, and geographic location. This role may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and equity grants as part of the total compensation package.
Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
Striving to be both compassionate and direct with your feedback
Being team-oriented and inclusive with your actions
This role is full time. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.
We offer you:
Competitive Salary
100% Healthcare, vision and dental coverage
401(k) + 3% company contribution
Additional benefit perks (One Medical membership, mental health resources and family planning assistance)
Equity incentive plan
Tech + office supplies stipend
Annual professional development stipend
Flexible paid time off + federal holidays off
Parental leave
Work virtually, near one of our hub locations
Referral Bonus
Visit our careers page to learn more.
Second Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world’s leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they’re needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. Learn more at secondfront.com.
ONE LAST THING…
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you ready to join our team?
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form.
This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
STATE NOTICES
Colorado:
In accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.
Maryland:
UNDER MARYLAND LAW, AN EMPLOYER MAY NOT REQUIRE OR DEMAND, AS A CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT, PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYMENT, OR CONTINUED EMPLOYMENT, THAT AN INDIVIDUAL SUBMIT TO OR TAKE A POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION OR SIMILAR TEST. AN EMPLOYER WHO VIOLATES THIS LAW IS GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND SUBJECT TO A FINE NOT EXCEEDING $100.
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We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.\n\nWe offer you:\n\n - Competitive Salary\n\n - 100% Healthcare, vision and dental coverage\n\n - 401(k) + 3% company contribution\n\n - Additional benefit perks (One Medical membership, mental health resources and family planning assistance)\n\n - Equity incentive plan\n\n - Tech + office supplies stipend\n\n - Annual professional development stipend\n\n - Flexible paid time off + federal holidays off\n\n - Parental leave\n\n - Work virtually, near one of our hub locations\n\n - Referral Bonus\n \n Visit our careers page https://www.secondfront.com/company/careers to learn more.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWHO WE ARE\n\nSecond Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. 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This role is accountable for building and leading a high-performing demand system that connects digital demand, lifecycle engagement, events, partnerships, sales programs, and agency execution into one cohesive pipeline motion.
As Director, Demand Generation, you will sit at the center of Growth, Sales, Partnerships, RevOps, and Product Marketing, translating strategy into execution and revenue impact. You will treat pipeline as a system to continuously optimize, balancing experimentation, operational discipline, and cross-functional alignment to improve performance across the funnel.
This is a strategic yet hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, moves decisively, and knows how to build, scale, and improve demand programs without relying solely on agencies or narrow-channel expertise.
If you’re excited to drive growth for mission-critical technology that supports national security, we want to hear from you.
Note: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:
• DC/Maryland/Virginia
• Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
• Denver/Colorado Springs, CO
• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
What You'll Do
• Own quarterly and annual sales-qualified pipeline targets with clear accountability for revenue contribution, efficiency, and ROI.
• Build and execute an integrated demand generation strategy spanning digital, lifecycle, events, partnerships, ABM, and sales-led programs.
• Lead the full-funnel demand engine, ensuring stronger alignment from awareness through pipeline acceleration and expansion.
• Drive paid and digital demand strategy across channels including LinkedIn, Google, retargeting, and emerging platforms.
• Own event-driven demand strategy, maximizing pipeline impact before, during, and after strategic activations including tradeshows, ecosystem events, partner activations, and flagship moments.
• Build and scale SEO, AEO, and content-driven inbound demand programs that improve discoverability, authority, and qualified pipeline.
• Own web strategy, landing page optimization, and conversion rate improvements to strengthen funnel performance.
• Lead a disciplined growth experimentation approach across channels to improve conversion, efficiency, and pipeline velocity.
• Identify, test, and validate new demand channels through controlled pilots and data-driven analysis.
• Support account-based and sales-led programs that accelerate enterprise deal cycles and improve expansion opportunities.
• Apply AI-enabled workflows to improve campaign execution, audience targeting, personalization, reporting efficiency, and decision-making.
• Develop clear attribution models that connect multi-channel activity directly to pipeline and revenue impact.
• Build repeatable systems, playbooks, and processes that scale with the business.
• Partner cross-functionally with Sales, RevOps, PMM, and Partnerships to align marketing programs with GTM priorities.
• Own and manage agency relationships across paid media, SEO, web, and digital programs, holding partners accountable to execution quality, experimentation rigor, and business outcomes.
• Help shape and lead future demand-focused resources, including agency partners and potential direct reports.
What You Bring
8+ years of experience in B2B SaaS demand generation, growth marketing, or integrated revenue marketing
Proven track record of generating measurable sales-qualified pipeline and revenue impact, not just lead volume
Experience owning full-funnel demand strategy across digital, lifecycle, events, and integrated campaigns
Strong hands-on experience with paid media strategy, demand systems, and agency management
Deep understanding of SEO, AEO, CRO, website performance, and inbound demand strategy
Experience managing agencies and external vendors with strong performance expectations
Ability to think strategically while staying close enough to execution to pressure-test programs and improve outcomes
Strong analytical mindset with experience tying activity back to pipeline, attribution, and revenue performance
Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving startup or scale-up environments
Excellent cross-functional leadership, communication, and decision-making skills
High standards for execution quality, experimentation, and measurable business impact
Proficiency with modern marketing technology and AI-enabled workflows
A passion for our mission to strengthen national security
U.S. citizenship is required for this role
Preferred
• Experience marketing to enterprise B2B SaaS buyers.
• Experience marketing to defense, federal, or regulated customers (B2G).
• Experience in high-growth startup or scale-stage environments.
• Experience supporting long, complex enterprise sales cycles.
• Familiarity with ABM, partner-driven GTM, and ecosystem-led demand motions.
The base salary for this position will start at $175,000-185,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
Success at 2F Looks Like:
• A proactive and solutions oriented mindset
• Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
• Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
• Being team-oriented with a focus on personal responsibility and autonomy
Perks & Benefits:
This role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.
Perks of Joining Our Team:
• Competitive salary
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution
• Comprehensive wellness benefits, including a One Medical membership, mental health resources, family planning support, and more
• Equity incentive plan
• New hire technology and home office stipend
• Annual professional development stipend
• Flexible paid time off, plus all federal holidays
• Generous parental leave
• Flexible remote work opportunities
• Employee referral bonus program
Visit our careers page to learn more.
Who We Are:
Second Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world’s leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they’re needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. Learn more at secondfront.com.
One last thing:
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you ready to join our team:
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
State notices:
Colorado:
In accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.
Maryland:
Under Maryland law, an employer may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination or similar test. An employer who violates this law is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding $100.
Security Authorization Specialist
Second Front Systems (2F) is seeking a detail-oriented, mission-focused Security Authorization Specialist to join our cybersecurity team. We are a fast-growing company operating at the intersection of advanced technology and national security, with a mission to accelerate the delivery of secure software to the nation’s defenders.
In this role, you will support the security authorization activities that keep our Game Warden platform and supporting systems authorized across Department of Defense environments. You will develop and maintain authorization packages, coordinate security control assessments, evaluate technical evidence, and work with engineering teams to resolve issues that could affect an authorization decision.
The Security Authorization Specialist will support systems throughout the Risk Management Framework lifecycle, from initial package development through assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring. You will work extensively in eMASS, manage DISA PPSM registrations, produce assessor-ready documentation, coordinate evidence collection, and help ensure system changes remain aligned with approved security requirements.
This role is well suited for someone who understands how DoD authorizations work in practice and can translate complex technical implementations into clear, accurate, and defensible security documentation.
Note: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:
• DC/Maryland/Virginia
• Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
• Denver/Colorado Springs, CO
• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
This is a full-time position.
What You'll Do
• Prepare, submit, and maintain security authorization packages for systems operating within Department of Defense environments.
• Convert technical designs, operational processes, and security capabilities into accurate control implementation statements and supporting documentation.
• Architect authorization records in eMASS, ensuring control responses, inherited controls, artifacts, assessment results, and system information remain complete and current.
• Establish authorization timelines and coordinate activities across system owners, engineers, assessors, government sponsors, and cybersecurity leadership.
• Organize evidence collection for control reviews, readiness activities, and formal assessments. Confirm that submitted materials directly address assessment objectives and accurately represent the system.
• Review vulnerability scans, STIG checklists, configuration results, architecture diagrams, policies, and procedures to identify gaps before they affect an authorization decision.
• Work with Product, Platform, DevSecOps, and Engineering teams to determine how cloud services, Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD pipelines, and supporting technologies satisfy security requirements.
• Track assessment findings and POA&M items from identification through closure. Coordinate remediation plans, document risk decisions, validate corrective actions, and assemble closure evidence.
• Manage the continuous monitoring cadence for assigned systems, including recurring control reviews, vulnerability reporting, patch status, IAVM compliance, POA&M reporting, and security posture updates.
• Maintain accurate DISA PPSM records for system ports, protocols, services, and data flows. Reconcile registrations with the authorization boundary, network architecture, and applicable Category Assurance List requirements.
• Prepare, submit, and maintain security authorization packages for systems operating within Department of Defense environments.
• Convert technical designs, operational processes, and security capabilities into accurate control implementation statements and supporting documentation.
• Administer authorization records in eMASS, ensuring control responses, inherited controls, artifacts, assessment results, and system information remain complete and current.
• Establish authorization timelines and coordinate activities across system owners, engineers, assessors, government sponsors, and cybersecurity leadership.
• Organize evidence collection for control reviews, readiness activities, and formal assessments, confirming that submitted materials directly address assessment objectives.
• Review vulnerability scans, STIG checklists, configuration results, architecture diagrams, policies, and procedures to identify gaps before they affect an authorization decision.
What You Bring
5-7 years of experience supporting DoD security authorization, Risk Management Framework, information assurance, security control assessment, or related cybersecurity compliance activities.
Direct involvement in preparing, assessing, or maintaining DoD authorization packages throughout the ATO and continuous monitoring lifecycle.
Hands-on proficiency with eMASS, including system registration, control documentation, artifact management, inheritance, assessment results, and package maintenance.
Practical experience with DISA PPSM and the documentation of ports, protocols, services, network boundaries, and system data flows.
Applied knowledge of NIST SP 800-37, NIST SP 800-53 Revision 4 or Revision 5, DoD RMF, and related DoD authorization guidance.
Familiarity with the DoD security ecosystem, including DISA STIGs, STIG Viewer, SCAP Compliance Checker, ACAS, IAVM requirements, the DISA Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide, and continuous monitoring expectations.
Strong technical writing skills, with experience creating control implementation statements, System Security Plans, POA&Ms, assessment responses, and evidence packages that can withstand assessor review.
Enough technical depth to understand cloud infrastructure, identity and access management, containerized workloads, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, vulnerability management, and modern software delivery practices.
The ability to analyze technical implementations and supporting evidence, recognize control gaps, and recommend practical steps to strengthen authorization readiness.
Experience managing concurrent priorities, assessment deadlines, findings, evidence requests, and stakeholder dependencies without losing attention to detail.
Clear and confident communication skills, particularly when coordinating among engineers, assessors, cybersecurity leaders, system owners, and government authorization stakeholders.
Three to five years of experience supporting DoD security authorization, Risk Management Framework, information assurance, security control assessment, or related cybersecurity compliance activities.
Direct involvement in preparing, assessing, or maintaining DoD authorization packages throughout the ATO and continuous monitoring lifecycle.
Hands-on proficiency with eMASS, including system registration, control documentation, artifact management, inheritance, assessment results, and package maintenance.
Practical experience with DISA PPSM and the documentation of ports, protocols, services, network boundaries, and system data flows.
Applied knowledge of NIST SP 800-37, NIST SP 800-53 Revision 4 or Revision 5, DoD RMF, and related DoD authorization guidance.
Familiarity with the DoD security ecosystem, including DISA STIGs, STIG Viewer, SCAP Compliance Checker, ACAS, IAVM requirements, and the DISA Cloud Computing Security Requirements
Active DOD Security clearance.
U.S. citizenship is required for this role.
Preferred
• Experience supporting DoD Impact Level 4 or Impact Level 5 cloud authorizations.
• Experience applying the DISA Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide or supporting agency-specific authorization and reciprocity processes.
• Experience supporting authorizations for cloud platforms, software-as-a-service products, platform-as-a-service environments, or DevSecOps solutions.
• Familiarity with GRC and evidence-automation platforms such as Xacta, RegScale, Drata, or comparable tools.
• Experience configuring GRC integrations or creating reusable evidence-collection workflows.
• Exposure to infrastructure as code, including Terraform, and cloud-native monitoring or observability tools used to produce continuous control evidence.
• Experience supporting Security Control Assessments, independent validation activities, or government authorization reviews.
• Previous work in cleared or classified environments involving government security, assessment, and authorization stakeholders.
• A strong interest in national security and Second Front Systems’ mission to accelerate the secure delivery of mission-critical software to the U.S. government.
The base salary for this position will fall between $150,000 and $175,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
Success at 2F Looks Like:
• A proactive and solutions oriented mindset
• Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
• Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
• Being team-oriented with a focus on personal responsibility and autonomy
Perks & Benefits:
This role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.
Perks of Joining Our Team:
• Competitive salary
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution
• Comprehensive wellness benefits, including a One Medical membership, mental health resources, family planning support, and more
• Equity incentive plan
• New hire technology and home office stipend
• Annual professional development stipend
• Flexible paid time off, plus all federal holidays
• Generous parental leave
• Flexible remote work opportunities
• Employee referral bonus program
Visit our careers page to learn more.
Who We Are:
Second Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world’s leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they’re needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. Learn more at secondfront.com.
One last thing:
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you ready to join our team:
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
State notices:
Colorado:
In accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.
Maryland:
Under Maryland law, an employer may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination or similar test. An employer who violates this law is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding $100.
Second Front Systems is looking for a senior technical leader with field deployment experience Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to strengthen our Federal Sales engineering organization.
Operating at customer sites ranging from connected networks to classified SCIFs with DDIL constraints, you will be responsible for owning technical relationships for high-visibility defense and intelligence community missions, leading deployments into denied environments, and mentoring forward deployed engineers across the bench.
You will set architectural direction for Game Warden integration into customer networks, resolve mission-critical issues in zero-connectivity scenarios, and translate field realities into product roadmap priorities, ensuring that 2F's most sensitive engagements deliver on technical commitments and customers achieve operational objectives.
We need someone capable of managing complex deployments in classified environments with full accountability for technical outcomes, diagnosing and resolving critical failures in real-time without escalation paths or external dependencies, and mentoring junior engineers and establishing technical standards that scale across customer engagements.
As a key partner to engineering, Security/Compliance, and Product leadership, you will feed customer operational challenges and platform gaps directly into development priorities, ensure 2F's platform serves warfighter needs, serving as the senior technical authority for 2F's most demanding customer relationships.
Note: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:
• DC/Maryland/Virginia
• Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
• Denver/Colorado Springs, CO
• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
What You'll Do
• Own end-to-end technical delivery for 2F's highest-complexity government and defense engagements — architecting, deploying, and sustaining Game Warden and integrated customer workloads across classified networks, DDIL environments, and multiple Impact Levels (IL2–IL6) and JWICS.
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point and primary client-facing authority, representing 2F to senior customer stakeholders (program managers, ISSOs/ISSMs, mission owners) and making real-time architectural and risk-tradeoff decisions on-site.
• Lead and mentor other Forward Deployed and DevSecOps Engineers — setting technical standards, reviewing designs, and building the playbooks that let the team scale to new missions faster.
• Deploy and harden secure Kubernetes-based infrastructure (Talos Linux, Docker, Istio, GitLab, Helm, Terraform) to sustain a Zero Trust (ZT) environment across customer cloud and on prem environments.
• Translate field experience into product and platform improvements, working directly with Engineering and Product leadership to prioritize the roadmap based on real deployment friction.
• Drive accreditation and continuous ATO (cATO) outcomes in partnership with the security/compliance team — producing and validating evidence against NIST 800-53, RMF, STIGs, and FedRAMP controls, and owning remediation of findings from 3PAO assessments and penetration tests.
• Maintain rigorous configuration management, security documentation, and audit-ready evidence across all engagements, and supporting the 2F team in customer security reviews and audits.
• Travel to client locations as needed for complex system deployments, updates and troubleshooting during high impact operational exercises, integration and training events.
What You Bring
• 7-10 years of experience in systems deployment, DevSecOps, or platform engineering in regulated/classified government environments, including demonstrated ownership of complex, mission-critical deployments (not just support/execution).
• Multi-cloud, government-authorized infrastructure: Hands-on experience deploying and hardening workloads across AWS GovCloud/Commercial, Microsoft Azure Government, and Google Cloud, including Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent) tailored to DoD Impact Level 2–6 and JWICS environments.
• Container & orchestration security: Expertise securing Kubernetes/OpenShift or equivalent container platforms — image hardening, admission controls, network policies, and runtime security — within accredited enclaves.
• Observability & incident response: Skilled in implementing logging, monitoring, and alerting stacks (ELK, Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana) to support 24/7 incident response, penetration test remediation, and Day 2 operations.
• Expert level proficiency in Linux (Talos, RedHat) server administration, along with deploying and maintaining Kubernetes on cloud platforms and disparate compute hardware.
• Demonstrated leadership: experience mentoring engineers, leading technical design reviews, or acting as a technical lead on customer-facing engagements.
• Strong scripting/automation ability in Go, Rust, Python, or Bash, with a track record of building internal tooling to remove manual toil from security and operations workflows.
• Active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance (or eligibility, with active clearance strongly preferred); U.S. citizenship required.
Preferred
The base salary for this position will fall between $160,000 and $200,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
Striving to be both compassionate and direct with your feedback
Being team-oriented and inclusive with your action
This role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.
We offer you:
Competitive Salary
100% Healthcare, vision and dental coverage
401(k) + 3% company contribution
Wellness perks (Fitness classes, mental health resources)
Equity incentive plan
Tech + office supplies stipend
Annual professional development stipend
Flexible paid time off + federal holidays off
Parental leave
Virtual work, but located near one of our hubs
Referral Bonus
Visit our careers page to learn more.
At Second Front Systems (2F), we empower defense and national security professionals to stay ahead in the ongoing race to leverage emerging technologies effectively and securely. Founded by three former U.S. Marines with firsthand experience of the dangers outdated technology poses in combat, our team is dedicated to fast-tracking government access to disruptive, commercially-proven technology for U.S. national security missions.
Our Game Warden product, a fully managed and compliant DevSecOps platform, accelerates the process for accrediting software as a service (SaaS) applications for government use.
Learn how 2F can help you make an impact on national security missions at www.secondfront.com
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you ready to join our team:
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Colorado:
In accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.
Maryland:
Under Maryland law, an employer may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination or similar test. An employer who violates this law is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding $100.
","descriptionPlain":"Second Front Systems is looking for a senior technical leader with field deployment experience Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to strengthen our Federal Sales engineering organization.\n\nOperating at customer sites ranging from connected networks to classified SCIFs with DDIL constraints, you will be responsible for owning technical relationships for high-visibility defense and intelligence community missions, leading deployments into denied environments, and mentoring forward deployed engineers across the bench.\n\nYou will set architectural direction for Game Warden integration into customer networks, resolve mission-critical issues in zero-connectivity scenarios, and translate field realities into product roadmap priorities, ensuring that 2F's most sensitive engagements deliver on technical commitments and customers achieve operational objectives.\n\nWe need someone capable of managing complex deployments in classified environments with full accountability for technical outcomes, diagnosing and resolving critical failures in real-time without escalation paths or external dependencies, and mentoring junior engineers and establishing technical standards that scale across customer engagements.\n\nAs a key partner to engineering, Security/Compliance, and Product leadership, you will feed customer operational challenges and platform gaps directly into development priorities, ensure 2F's platform serves warfighter needs, serving as the senior technical authority for 2F's most demanding customer relationships.\n\nNote: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:\n• DC/Maryland/Virginia\n• Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC\n• Denver/Colorado Springs, CO\n• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Do\n\n\n• Own end-to-end technical delivery for 2F's highest-complexity government and defense engagements — architecting, deploying, and sustaining Game Warden and integrated customer workloads across classified networks, DDIL environments, and multiple Impact Levels (IL2–IL6) and JWICS.\n\n\n• Serve as the senior technical escalation point and primary client-facing authority, representing 2F to senior customer stakeholders (program managers, ISSOs/ISSMs, mission owners) and making real-time architectural and risk-tradeoff decisions on-site.\n\n\n• Lead and mentor other Forward Deployed and DevSecOps Engineers — setting technical standards, reviewing designs, and building the playbooks that let the team scale to new missions faster.\n\n\n• Deploy and harden secure Kubernetes-based infrastructure (Talos Linux, Docker, Istio, GitLab, Helm, Terraform) to sustain a Zero Trust (ZT) environment across customer cloud and on prem environments.\n\n\n• Translate field experience into product and platform improvements, working directly with Engineering and Product leadership to prioritize the roadmap based on real deployment friction.\n\n\n• Drive accreditation and continuous ATO (cATO) outcomes in partnership with the security/compliance team — producing and validating evidence against NIST 800-53, RMF, STIGs, and FedRAMP controls, and owning remediation of findings from 3PAO assessments and penetration tests.\n\n\n• Maintain rigorous configuration management, security documentation, and audit-ready evidence across all engagements, and supporting the 2F team in customer security reviews and audits.\n\n\n• Travel to client locations as needed for complex system deployments, updates and troubleshooting during high impact operational exercises, integration and training events.\n\n\n\nWhat You Bring\n• 7-10 years of experience in systems deployment, DevSecOps, or platform engineering in regulated/classified government environments, including demonstrated ownership of complex, mission-critical deployments (not just support/execution).\n\n\n• Multi-cloud, government-authorized infrastructure: Hands-on experience deploying and hardening workloads across AWS GovCloud/Commercial, Microsoft Azure Government, and Google Cloud, including Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent) tailored to DoD Impact Level 2–6 and JWICS environments.\n\n\n• Container & orchestration security: Expertise securing Kubernetes/OpenShift or equivalent container platforms — image hardening, admission controls, network policies, and runtime security — within accredited enclaves.\n\n\n• Observability & incident response: Skilled in implementing logging, monitoring, and alerting stacks (ELK, Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana) to support 24/7 incident response, penetration test remediation, and Day 2 operations.\n\n\n• Expert level proficiency in Linux (Talos, RedHat) server administration, along with deploying and maintaining Kubernetes on cloud platforms and disparate compute hardware.\n\n\n• Demonstrated leadership: experience mentoring engineers, leading technical design reviews, or acting as a technical lead on customer-facing engagements.\n\n\n• Strong scripting/automation ability in Go, Rust, Python, or Bash, with a track record of building internal tooling to remove manual toil from security and operations workflows.\n\n\n• Active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance (or eligibility, with active clearance strongly preferred); U.S. citizenship required.\n\n\n\nPreferred\n\nThe base salary for this position will fall between $160,000 and $200,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.\n\n\n\n\nSUCCESS AT 2F LOOKS LIKE:\n\n - Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth\n\n - Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results\n\n - Striving to be both compassionate and direct with your feedback\n\n - Being team-oriented and inclusive with your action\n\n\n\n\nPERKS & BENEFITS:\n\nThis role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.\n\nWe offer you:\n\n - Competitive Salary\n\n - 100% Healthcare, vision and dental coverage\n\n - 401(k) + 3% company contribution\n\n - Wellness perks (Fitness classes, mental health resources)\n\n - Equity incentive plan\n\n - Tech + office supplies stipend\n\n - Annual professional development stipend\n\n - Flexible paid time off + federal holidays off\n\n - Parental leave\n\n - Virtual work, but located near one of our hubs\n\n - Referral Bonus\n\nVisit our careers page https://www.secondfront.com/company/careers to learn more.\n\n\n\n\nWHO WE ARE:\n\nAt Second Front Systems (2F), we empower defense and national security professionals to stay ahead in the ongoing race to leverage emerging technologies effectively and securely. Founded by three former U.S. Marines with firsthand experience of the dangers outdated technology poses in combat, our team is dedicated to fast-tracking government access to disruptive, commercially-proven technology for U.S. national security missions.\n\nOur Game Warden https://www.secondfront.com/game-warden product, a fully managed and compliant DevSecOps platform, accelerates the process for accrediting software as a service (SaaS) applications for government use.\n\nLearn how 2F can help you make an impact on national security missions at www.secondfront.com http://www.secondfront.com\n\n\n\n\n\nONE LAST THING:\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.\n\n \n\nAre you ready to join our team:\n\n \n\nTo apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. 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Operating at forward-deployed environments where Game Warden onboarding determines mission readiness, you will be responsible for owning technical success of complex customer implementations, establishing implementation standards, and translating field friction into platform improvements.
You will lead highest-stakes onboarding engagements, mentor Implementation Engineers on configuration and troubleshooting, and partner with Product and Platform Engineering to harden deployment processes, ensuring that customers achieve secure, accredited Game Warden deployments on schedule and Implementation Engineers operate from documented, tested procedures.
We need someone capable of managing multi-week onboarding engagements with minimal support, where integration failures create operational risk; diagnosing configuration and infrastructure issues across classified and unclassified networks, and documenting root causes as permanent fixes; and building consensus between field realities and product roadmap decisions, translating warfighter constraints into engineering requirements.
As a key partner to product, Platform Engineering, and Federal Sales leadership, you will reduce post-deployment support costs, compress onboarding timelines, and accelerate customer accreditation by embedding lessons learned into the platform, serving as the technical authority who ensures Game Warden deployments succeed in contested environments.
Note: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:
• DC/Maryland/Virginia
• Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
• Denver/Colorado Springs, CO
• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
What You'll Do
Own the technical strategy and execution for 2F's most complex and high-visibility customer deployment implementations, including first-of-kind application onboardings and multi-agency or multi-enclave rollouts.
Serve as the senior-most subject matter expert on Second Front products across Implementation, building the internal enablement materials and technical playbooks the rest of the team relies on.
Own and continuously improve onboarding and customer support processes across the Implementation function, identifying systemic friction and driving it out with better tooling, documentation, or automation rather than one-off fixes.
Lead onboarding of customer applications into GameWarden for security scanning, including the technically hardest cases such as legacy architectures, unusual dependency chains, or non-standard compliance postures.
Partner directly with Product and Platform Engineering leadership, feeding implementation-pattern insights into the platform roadmap.
Architect and configure complex cloud-based customer deployments across AWS, GCP, and Azure, making design decisions other engineers on the team will follow as precedent.
Resolve escalations from other Implementation Engineers, unblocking stalled deployments and coaching them through novel technical problems.
Represent 2F technically in front of senior customer stakeholders and program managers, and collaborate cross-functionally with Sales and Platform Engineering throughout the
What You Bring
8–10+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, or implementation/deployment engineering, with demonstrated ownership of complex, production-grade deployments (not just execution of defined tasks).
Advanced Linux installation, troubleshooting, and maintenance expertise, including hands-on hardening and support of on-premises hardware at scale.
Deep DevSecOps tooling and practices knowledge, with experience building or maturing implementation/onboarding processes rather than only following them.
Strong communication under pressure, with a track record of leading technical conversations directly with senior customer stakeholders during high-stakes deployments.
Demonstrated mentorship and technical leadership of other engineers, including acting as an escalation point on difficult problems.
A track record of diagnosing and resolving integration friction between customer legacy systems and modern software stacks, with judgment about when and, more importantly, how to push back on customer architecture versus when to engineer around constraints.
DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance eligibility required; active or interim clearance strongly preferred.
U.S. citizenship is required for this role.
Ability to travel up to 25%.
Preferred
The base salary for this position will fall between $160,000 and $190,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
Striving to be both compassionate and direct with your feedback
Being team-oriented and inclusive with your action
This role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.
We offer you:
Competitive Salary
100% Healthcare, vision and dental coverage
401(k) + 3% company contribution
Additional benefit perks (One Medical membership, mental health resources and family planning assistance)
Equity incentive plan
Tech + office supplies stipend
Annual professional development stipend
Flexible paid time off + federal holidays off
Parental leave
Work virtually, near one of our hub locations
Referral Bonus
Visit our careers page to learn more.
At Second Front Systems (2F), we empower defense and national security professionals to stay ahead in the ongoing race to leverage emerging technologies effectively and securely. Founded by three former U.S. Marines with firsthand experience of the dangers outdated technology poses in combat, our team is dedicated to fast-tracking government access to disruptive, commercially-proven technology for U.S. national security missions.
Our Game Warden product, a fully managed and compliant DevSecOps platform, accelerates the process for accrediting software as a service (SaaS) applications for government use.
Learn how 2F can help you make an impact on national security missions at www.secondfront.com
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you ready to join our team:
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Colorado:
In accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.
Maryland:
Under Maryland law, an employer may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination or similar test. An employer who violates this law is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding $100.
","descriptionPlain":"Second Front Systems is looking for an operationally experienced, technically rigorous Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Implementation to strengthen our implementation function across federal deployments.\n\nOperating at forward-deployed environments where Game Warden onboarding determines mission readiness, you will be responsible for owning technical success of complex customer implementations, establishing implementation standards, and translating field friction into platform improvements.\n\nYou will lead highest-stakes onboarding engagements, mentor Implementation Engineers on configuration and troubleshooting, and partner with Product and Platform Engineering to harden deployment processes, ensuring that customers achieve secure, accredited Game Warden deployments on schedule and Implementation Engineers operate from documented, tested procedures.\n\nWe need someone capable of managing multi-week onboarding engagements with minimal support, where integration failures create operational risk; diagnosing configuration and infrastructure issues across classified and unclassified networks, and documenting root causes as permanent fixes; and building consensus between field realities and product roadmap decisions, translating warfighter constraints into engineering requirements.\n\nAs a key partner to product, Platform Engineering, and Federal Sales leadership, you will reduce post-deployment support costs, compress onboarding timelines, and accelerate customer accreditation by embedding lessons learned into the platform, serving as the technical authority who ensures Game Warden deployments succeed in contested environments.\n\nNote: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:\n• DC/Maryland/Virginia\n• Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC\n• Denver/Colorado Springs, CO\n• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Do\n\n - Own the technical strategy and execution for 2F's most complex and high-visibility customer deployment implementations, including first-of-kind application onboardings and multi-agency or multi-enclave rollouts.\n\n - Serve as the senior-most subject matter expert on Second Front products across Implementation, building the internal enablement materials and technical playbooks the rest of the team relies on.\n\n - Own and continuously improve onboarding and customer support processes across the Implementation function, identifying systemic friction and driving it out with better tooling, documentation, or automation rather than one-off fixes.\n\n - Lead onboarding of customer applications into GameWarden for security scanning, including the technically hardest cases such as legacy architectures, unusual dependency chains, or non-standard compliance postures.\n\n - Partner directly with Product and Platform Engineering leadership, feeding implementation-pattern insights into the platform roadmap.\n\n - Architect and configure complex cloud-based customer deployments across AWS, GCP, and Azure, making design decisions other engineers on the team will follow as precedent.\n\n - Resolve escalations from other Implementation Engineers, unblocking stalled deployments and coaching them through novel technical problems.\n\n - Represent 2F technically in front of senior customer stakeholders and program managers, and collaborate cross-functionally with Sales and Platform Engineering throughout the\n\n\n\nWhat You Bring\n\n - 8–10+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, or implementation/deployment engineering, with demonstrated ownership of complex, production-grade deployments (not just execution of defined tasks).\n\n - Advanced Linux installation, troubleshooting, and maintenance expertise, including hands-on hardening and support of on-premises hardware at scale.\n\n - Deep DevSecOps tooling and practices knowledge, with experience building or maturing implementation/onboarding processes rather than only following them.\n\n - Strong communication under pressure, with a track record of leading technical conversations directly with senior customer stakeholders during high-stakes deployments.\n\n - Demonstrated mentorship and technical leadership of other engineers, including acting as an escalation point on difficult problems.\n\n - A track record of diagnosing and resolving integration friction between customer legacy systems and modern software stacks, with judgment about when and, more importantly, how to push back on customer architecture versus when to engineer around constraints.\n\n - DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance eligibility required; active or interim clearance strongly preferred.\n\n - U.S. citizenship is required for this role.\n\n - Ability to travel up to 25%.\n\n\n\nPreferred\n\nThe base salary for this position will fall between $160,000 and $190,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.\n\n\n \n\n\nSUCCESS AT 2F LOOKS LIKE:\n\n - Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth\n\n - Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results\n\n - Striving to be both compassionate and direct with your feedback\n\n - Being team-oriented and inclusive with your action\n\n\n\n\nPERKS & BENEFITS:\n\nThis role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.\n\nWe offer you:\n\n - Competitive Salary\n\n - 100% Healthcare, vision and dental coverage\n\n - 401(k) + 3% company contribution\n\n - Additional benefit perks (One Medical membership, mental health resources and family planning assistance)\n\n - Equity incentive plan\n\n - Tech + office supplies stipend\n\n - Annual professional development stipend\n\n - Flexible paid time off + federal holidays off\n\n - Parental leave\n\n - Work virtually, near one of our hub locations\n\n - Referral Bonus\n\nVisit our careers page https://www.secondfront.com/company/careers to learn more.\n\n\n\n\nWHO WE ARE:\n\nAt Second Front Systems (2F), we empower defense and national security professionals to stay ahead in the ongoing race to leverage emerging technologies effectively and securely. Founded by three former U.S. Marines with firsthand experience of the dangers outdated technology poses in combat, our team is dedicated to fast-tracking government access to disruptive, commercially-proven technology for U.S. national security missions.\n\nOur Game Warden https://www.secondfront.com/game-warden product, a fully managed and compliant DevSecOps platform, accelerates the process for accrediting software as a service (SaaS) applications for government use.\n\nLearn how 2F can help you make an impact on national security missions at www.secondfront.com http://www.secondfront.com\n\n\n\n\n\nONE LAST THING:\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.\n\n \n\nAre you ready to join our team:\n\n \n\nTo apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.\n\n \n\n\nSTATE NOTICES:\n\nColorado:\n\nIn accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.\n\n \n\nMaryland:\n\nUnder Maryland law, an employer may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination or similar test. 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This is not a traditional field marketing job, and we don't want someone who's looking for one.
Your north star is building experiences that last—the moment people are still talking about a month later, the piece of swag they actually keep on their desk instead of tossing at the airport, the image of 2F that lodges in someone's head and won't leave. That's the work.
It also has to drive results. Your activations should connect to pipeline and measurable outcomes—memorability that moves the business is what we're after. We want someone who creates unforgettable moments, understands why they matter to the mission, and gives customers a reason to choose Second Front.
You'll design and run the full portfolio of 2F's live presence: our annual symposium (500+ attendees), happy hours and socials, sporting and action-sports activations, executive engagements, trade shows, and large-scale booth builds. Defense tech events are a sea of sameness—pipe-and-drape booths, branded stress balls, the same hotel ballroom happy hour. We want to be the thing people talk about on the flight home.
This is a builder's and an instigator's role. You bring the playbook, the vendor network, and the irreverent instinct for what cuts through—and you'll have the autonomy to run with it.
Note: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:
DC/Maryland/Virginia - Preferred
Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
Denver/Colorado Springs, CO
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
Own the strategy, budget, and execution for 2F's flagship annual symposium, from concept through day-of operations and post-event measurement.
Build experiences that last. Design the highlight moments—the unexpected venue, the activation with a line around the block, the standout swag people actually keep, the stunt that earns its way onto someone's LinkedIn without us asking—that leaves a lasting impression of 2F in people's minds.
Generate fresh, counterculture, off-the-wall concepts that make 2F the standout in a crowded, conservative market—and have the rigor to pull them off.
Run our happy hours, socials, and executive dinners—the high-touch engagements where deals and partnerships actually move—and reinvent the format so they don't feel like everyone else's.
Manage sporting and action-sports activations and suite hospitality, including racing partnerships and VIP programs.
Lead trade show presence and large-scale booth activations: design direction, vendor management, logistics, staffing, and lead capture—with a creative point of view that refuses the default.
Build customer engagement programs that deepen relationships across our customer and partner base.
Partner with sales and demand gen to connect activations to pipeline and measurable outcomes.
Manage external vendors, venues, agencies, and production partners—pushing them past their comfort zone and holding them to deadlines, budgets, and our quality bar.
Bring an ecosystem-first instinct: lead with customers and partners and their wins, not with us.
5+ years running experiential, events, or field marketing—ideally including large-scale (250+ people) flagship events.
A portfolio of moments people still remember—and a sense for how those moments connected back to the business.
Bold, unconventional ideas you actually shipped—not decks of concepts that died in committee. We want to see the stunt, the activation, and the moment that worked because they were different.
End-to-end ownership: strategy, budget, logistics, vendor management, and measurement.
Existing relationships and fluency within the defense tech, govtech, or national security ecosystem. (Highly, highly preferred.)
The taste to know the difference between weird-for-weird's-sake and weird-that-works—and the discipline to land the plane every time.
Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with tight timelines and high standards.
Willingness to travel and a hospitality instinct that shows up under pressure.
U.S. citizenship is required for this role.
The base salary for this position will fall between $135,000-150,000 Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
Striving to be both compassionate and direct with your feedback
Being team-oriented and inclusive with your action
This role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.
We offer you:
Competitive Salary
100% Healthcare, vision and dental coverage
401(k) + 3% company contribution
Wellness perks
Equity incentive plan
Tech + office supplies stipend
Annual professional development stipend
Flexible paid time off + federal holidays off
Parental leave
Work virtual, located near one of our hubs
Referral Bonus
Visit our careers page to learn more.
Second Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world’s leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they’re needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. Learn more at secondfront.com.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you ready to join our team:
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Colorado:
In accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.
Maryland:
Under Maryland law, an employer may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination or similar test. An employer who violates this law is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding $100.
Second Front Systems (2F) is seeking a Commercial Sales Account Executive to drive new business for 2F Game Warden, our authorized DevSecOps platform that enables the authorization and deployment of software onto government and defense networks fast. This is a full-cycle, quota-carrying sales seat on a growing commercial team, and we don't want someone who's looking to coast on inbound.
Your north star is new logos and closed-won revenue. You own the full sales cycle for 2F Game Warden—from first conversation to signed contract—and you're judged on quota attainment, not activity.
This person must also be passionate about the 2F mission. Every deal you close puts a software company's technology in front of warfighters and mission owners faster—cutting deployment timelines from years to weeks. We want someone who closes business and understands why it matters.
You'll prospect, pitch, and close independent software vendors (ISVs) and technology companies who need a fast, credible path to DoW and FedRAMP authorization/certification. Compliance sales is a sea of sameness—generic RFPs, slow legal cycles, buyers who've been burned before. We want you to be the rep who makes 2F Game Warden the obvious choice and gets the deal signed.
This is a hunter's and a closer's role for an experienced seller. You bring proven hunter skills, a track record of closed-won revenue, pipeline hygiene and discipline, and the instinct for navigating technical and procurement stakeholders—and you'll have the autonomy to run your territory like a business, with minimal oversight from leadership. You'll also be looked to as an informal mentor for less experienced reps and as a voice in shaping how the commercial sales team sells.
Note: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs
DC/Maryland/Virginia
Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
Denver/Colorado Springs, CO
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
Own and prioritize a complex book of business selling 2F Game Warden to independent software vendors (ISVs) and technology companies pursuing DoW, IC, and federal civilian markets—allocating your time and resources across accounts to hit team objectives.
Run full-cycle sales—from prospecting and discovery through technical validation, procurement, negotiation, and close—without heavy hand-holding.
Build and manage a healthy pipeline through proactive outbound prospecting, not just inbound leads, consistently exceeding pipeline generation targets.
Clearly articulate how 2F Game Warden accelerates DoW Impact Level and FedRAMP accreditation/certification to both technical buyers (engineering, security) and executive decision-makers.
Navigate multi-stakeholder deal cycles involving procurement, security, compliance, and executive sponsors on the customer side, building relationships up to the VP/C-suite level when needed to keep deals moving.
Partner with solutions engineers to run tailored product demos and technical validation sessions that move deals forward.
Keep an accurate, up-to-date forecast in the CRM and communicate deal status and risk clearly to sales leadership.
Partner with marketing and business development to convert campaigns and warm intros into qualified pipeline.
Help shape sales methodology, messaging, and playbooks for the commercial team based on what you're seeing win (and lose) in the field.
Negotiate contracts and pricing, working with legal and deal desk to close on terms that work for both sides.
Bring an ecosystem-first instinct: build relationships with cloud and channel partners like AWS, Google Cloud, and Carahsoft to source and close deals together.
5+ years of quota-carrying SaaS or software sales experience, ideally selling technical platforms to ISVs, cloud, or DevSecOps buyers.
A track record of consistently meeting or exceeding quota—and a clear sense of which deals you closed and why.
Experience closing complex, multi-stakeholder deals you actually shipped—not just pipelines that stalled at the technical evaluation. We want to see the deals that closed because you drove them.
End-to-end ownership: prospecting, discovery, demo, negotiation, and close, with disciplined CRM hygiene throughout.
Existing relationships and fluency within the defense tech, govtech, or national security ecosystem. (Highly, highly preferred.)
The judgment to know when to push a deal forward and when to walk away—and the discipline to keep a forecast honest every time.
Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with long, technical sales cycles and high standards.
Willingness to travel for customer meetings, demos, and industry events, plus a Salesforce (or similar CRM) fluency that keeps your pipeline visible.
U.S. citizenship is required for this role.
The base salary for this position will fall between $110,000-140,000, with an on-target earnings (OTE) range of $220,000-280,000 including uncapped commission. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
Striving to be both compassionate and direct with your feedback
Being team-oriented and inclusive with your action
This role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.
We offer you:
Competitive Salary
100% Healthcare, vision and dental coverage
401(k) + 3% company contribution
Wellness perks (Fitness classes, mental health resources)
Equity incentive plan
Tech + office supplies stipend
Annual professional development stipend
Flexible paid time off + federal holidays off
Parental leave
Work virtually near one of our Hub Locations
Referral Bonus
Visit our careers page to learn more.
Second Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world’s leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they’re needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. Learn more at secondfront.com.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Colorado:
In accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.
Maryland:
Under Maryland law, an employer may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination or similar test. An employer who violates this law is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding $100.
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We want someone who closes business and understands why it matters.\n\n\n\nYou'll prospect, pitch, and close independent software vendors (ISVs) and technology companies who need a fast, credible path to DoW and FedRAMP authorization/certification. Compliance sales is a sea of sameness—generic RFPs, slow legal cycles, buyers who've been burned before. We want you to be the rep who makes 2F Game Warden the obvious choice and gets the deal signed.\n\n\n\nThis is a hunter's and a closer's role for an experienced seller. You bring proven hunter skills, a track record of closed-won revenue, pipeline hygiene and discipline, and the instinct for navigating technical and procurement stakeholders—and you'll have the autonomy to run your territory like a business, with minimal oversight from leadership. You'll also be looked to as an informal mentor for less experienced reps and as a voice in shaping how the commercial sales team sells.\n\n\n\nNote: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs\n\n - DC/Maryland/Virginia\n\n - Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC\n\n - Denver/Colorado Springs, CO\n\n - Dallas/Fort Worth, TX\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\n - Own and prioritize a complex book of business selling 2F Game Warden to independent software vendors (ISVs) and technology companies pursuing DoW, IC, and federal civilian markets—allocating your time and resources across accounts to hit team objectives.\n\n - Run full-cycle sales—from prospecting and discovery through technical validation, procurement, negotiation, and close—without heavy hand-holding.\n\n - Build and manage a healthy pipeline through proactive outbound prospecting, not just inbound leads, consistently exceeding pipeline generation targets.\n\n - Clearly articulate how 2F Game Warden accelerates DoW Impact Level and FedRAMP accreditation/certification to both technical buyers (engineering, security) and executive decision-makers.\n\n - Navigate multi-stakeholder deal cycles involving procurement, security, compliance, and executive sponsors on the customer side, building relationships up to the VP/C-suite level when needed to keep deals moving.\n\n - Partner with solutions engineers to run tailored product demos and technical validation sessions that move deals forward.\n\n - Keep an accurate, up-to-date forecast in the CRM and communicate deal status and risk clearly to sales leadership.\n\n - Partner with marketing and business development to convert campaigns and warm intros into qualified pipeline.\n\n - Help shape sales methodology, messaging, and playbooks for the commercial team based on what you're seeing win (and lose) in the field.\n\n - Negotiate contracts and pricing, working with legal and deal desk to close on terms that work for both sides.\n\n - Bring an ecosystem-first instinct: build relationships with cloud and channel partners like AWS, Google Cloud, and Carahsoft to source and close deals together.\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 5+ years of quota-carrying SaaS or software sales experience, ideally selling technical platforms to ISVs, cloud, or DevSecOps buyers.\n\n - A track record of consistently meeting or exceeding quota—and a clear sense of which deals you closed and why.\n\n - Experience closing complex, multi-stakeholder deals you actually shipped—not just pipelines that stalled at the technical evaluation. We want to see the deals that closed because you drove them.\n\n - End-to-end ownership: prospecting, discovery, demo, negotiation, and close, with disciplined CRM hygiene throughout.\n\n - Existing relationships and fluency within the defense tech, govtech, or national security ecosystem. (Highly, highly preferred.)\n\n - The judgment to know when to push a deal forward and when to walk away—and the discipline to keep a forecast honest every time.\n\n - Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with long, technical sales cycles and high standards.\n\n - Willingness to travel for customer meetings, demos, and industry events, plus a Salesforce (or similar CRM) fluency that keeps your pipeline visible.\n\n - U.S. citizenship is required for this role.\n \n \n\n\n\nThe base salary for this position will fall between $110,000-140,000, with an on-target earnings (OTE) range of $220,000-280,000 including uncapped commission. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.\n\n\n\n\nSUCCESS AT 2F LOOKS LIKE:\n\n - Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth\n\n - Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results\n\n - Striving to be both compassionate and direct with your feedback\n\n - Being team-oriented and inclusive with your action\n\n\n\n\nPERKS & BENEFITS:\n\nThis role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.\n\nWe offer you:\n\n - Competitive Salary\n\n - 100% Healthcare, vision and dental coverage\n\n - 401(k) + 3% company contribution\n\n - Wellness perks (Fitness classes, mental health resources)\n\n - Equity incentive plan\n\n - Tech + office supplies stipend\n\n - Annual professional development stipend\n\n - Flexible paid time off + federal holidays off\n\n - Parental leave\n\n - Work virtually near one of our Hub Locations\n\n - Referral Bonus\n\nVisit our careers page https://www.secondfront.com/company/careers to learn more.\n\n\n\n\nWHO WE ARE:\n\nSecond Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world’s leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they’re needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. 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Second Front Systems (2F) is seeking a Cybersecurity Assessment Engineer to perform hands-on security assessments of software deployed through the Game Warden platform.
This is not a scan-operator or checklist-only position. We are looking for someone who can investigate technical findings, understand how an application is built and deployed, distinguish meaningful risk from scanner noise, and give engineering teams practical guidance they can act on.
Reporting to the Head of Product Security & Compliance, you will assess customer applications, container images, cloud configurations, software dependencies, and supporting artifacts before and after deployment. You will work directly with Product, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Mission Success, and customer development teams to identify vulnerabilities, evaluate their actual risk, and determine whether an application is ready to operate within Game Warden.
Your work will directly influence deployment decisions, vulnerability remediation, continuous monitoring, and the security posture of a platform supporting mission-critical government software.
Note: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:
• DC/Maryland/Virginia
• Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
• Denver/Colorado Springs, CO
• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
This is a full-time position.
What You'll Do
• Perform technical security assessments of customer applications and services seeking deployment through the Game Warden platform.
• Review application artifacts, container images, software dependencies, infrastructure configurations, data flows, APIs, and deployment documentation to identify security weaknesses.
• Analyze results from SAST, DAST, software composition analysis, container scanning, infrastructure-as-code scanning, secrets detection, and vulnerability management tools.
• Serve as a trusted technical security partner to Mission Success, Platform Engineering, DevOps, and customer development teams.
• Partner with Security Authorization Specialists to ensure technical assessment results and supporting evidence can be used for RMF, FedRAMP, and continuous monitoring activities.
• Provide developers with clear remediation guidance that identifies the vulnerable component, explains the risk, and recommends specific corrective actions.
• Evaluate requests for vulnerability exceptions or delayed remediation. Validate the stated rationale, examine compensating controls, and provide a documented risk recommendation to the appropriate approving authority.
• Support recurring continuous monitoring reviews by identifying new vulnerabilities, configuration drift, outdated dependencies, and changes affecting previously assessed applications.
• Communicate assessment results directly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders, including customers who may need help understanding findings and remediation expectations.
• Produce clear assessment records that document the scope, methodology, evidence reviewed, findings identified, risk analysis performed, and remediation status.
What You Bring
• Posses 5 to 7 years of hands-on experience in application security, product security, vulnerability assessment, cloud security, penetration testing, DevSecOps, or a closely related technical security discipline.
• Strong understanding of common application and cloud vulnerabilities, including the OWASP Top 10, insecure configurations, dependency risk, secrets exposure, authentication weaknesses, authorization failures, and software supply chain threats.
• Hands-on experience assessing applications or services deployed in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. Direct AWS experience is strongly preferred.
Working knowledge of containers, Docker, Kubernetes, container registries, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience using multiple security testing technologies, such as SAST, DAST, software composition analysis, container scanning, infrastructure-as-code scanning, secrets detection, and vulnerability scanners.
• The ability to interpret CVEs, CVSS vectors, EPSS scores, CISA KEV entries, vendor advisories, exploit information, and other sources used to assess vulnerability risk.
• Experience reviewing SBOMs and investigating vulnerable open-source or third-party software dependencies.
• Working knowledge of DISA STIGs, Security Requirements Guides, CIS Benchmarks, and secure configuration practices.
• Practical understanding of NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-37, continuous monitoring, and the role technical assessment evidence plays in government authorization programs.
• The ability to explain a technical finding clearly, defend a risk conclusion, and provide useful remediation guidance to software engineers and customers.
• Sound judgment when working through incomplete information, conflicting scan results, and security issues without an obvious resolution.
• Demonstrated experience interpreting security scan results and independently validating whether reported vulnerabilities are accurate, reachable, and exploitable.
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust determination.
U.S. citizenship is required for this role.
Preferred
• Experience supporting FedRAMP Moderate, FedRAMP High, DoD RMF, or other government authorization programs.
• Experience securing or assessing Kubernetes-based DevSecOps platforms, platform-as-a-service environments, or multi-tenant cloud services.
• Familiarity with GitLab, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Anchore, Trivy, Tenable, and cloud-native observability tooling.
• Experience working directly with software development teams to remediate vulnerabilities and improve secure development practices.
• Certifications such as Security+,CySA+, CSSLP, AWS Certified Security, Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist, GIAC, or comparable technical credentials.
• A strong interest in protecting national security systems and improving how mission software is evaluated and delivered.
The base salary for this position will fall between $155,000 and $175,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
Success at 2F Looks Like:
• A proactive and solutions oriented mindset
• Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
• Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
• Being team-oriented with a focus on personal responsibility and autonomy
Perks & Benefits:
This role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.
Perks of Joining Our Team:
• Competitive salary
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution
• Comprehensive wellness benefits, including a One Medical membership, mental health resources, family planning support, and more
• Equity incentive plan
• New hire technology and home office stipend
• Annual professional development stipend
• Flexible paid time off, plus all federal holidays
• Generous parental leave
• Flexible remote work opportunities
• Employee referral bonus program
Visit our careers page to learn more.
Who We Are:
Second Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world’s leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they’re needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. Learn more at secondfront.com.
One last thing:
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Are you ready to join our team:
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
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Second Front Systems (2F) is seeking a Senior Technical Implementation Engineer to join our UK team. We are a fast-growing defence technology company working at the convergence of technology and national security. The role is dynamic and wide-ranging, focused on the deployment and scale of our Game Warden DevSecOps platform within the UK government, NATO and secure cloud environments.
This is an individual contributor role suited to a technically strong engineer who is comfortable operating independently, managing complex deployments end-to-end, and engaging directly with senior stakeholders. You will be the primary technical presence in UK customer environments, working closely with 2F’s US-based teams to ensure delivery excellence.
Security Clearance Requirement: This position requires the holder to hold, or be eligible to obtain, Developed Vetting (DV) clearance. Candidates must be UK nationals (or hold dual nationality with the UK as one nationality) and have sufficient UK residency history to be sponsored for DV. Active DV clearance is strongly preferred. This role cannot be progressed without clearance eligibility.
Location: Hybrid remote (UK-based). The role requires frequent travel to customer and partner sites across the UK and NATO to support customer requirements. Candidates must be based within the UK and willing to travel as required by operational demand.
Manage the full lifecycle of technical implementations within the UK government and secure cloud environments, from initial scoping to live deployment, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and to the required security and quality standards.
Act as the primary technical point of contact for UK customers during implementation, providing regular updates, managing expectations, and resolving issues with a minimum of escalation.
Provide hands-on Kubernetes expertise across deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting, ensuring best practices are applied consistently in classified and sensitive environments.
Work independently to coordinate technical requirements across internal Product, Engineering, and Growth teams, identifying and resolving blockers proactively.
Implement and continuously improve processes and tooling that increase implementation efficiency and quality, drawing on direct customer feedback.
Contribute to the development of UK-specific deployment patterns and documentation, supporting 2F’s growing presence in the UK defence, NATO and national security market.
Exhibit a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset, resolving technical and procedural challenges promptly to keep programmes on track.
Proficient in using AI tools (such as Claude and Gemini) to accelerate and enhance day-to-day work, from code generation, debugging, and documentation to research and problem-solving — with sound judgement about where AI adds value and where human oversight is required.
5+ years of experience in technical implementation, DevOps, or a related engineering discipline, with a demonstrated ability to deliver complex projects independently.
Strong hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Keycloak and container orchestration, with proven experience deploying and managing applications at scale.
Prior experience working within UK defence tech, SaaS, or cloud-based environments.
Knowledge of compliance and security standards, particularly iUK government security frameworks and accreditation processes (e.g. JSP 604, Secure By Design)
Multi Cloud experience: AWS, Azure, GCP.
Experience working with Git and standard ticketing (JIRA) and project management tools.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to convey complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior government personnel.
Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams with competing priorities, maintaining quality and pace in ambiguous environments.
High degree of personal accountability and resilience; comfortable operating with autonomy in a fast-moving, distributed team.
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent demonstrable experience. Relevant certifications (e.g. CKA, AWS, Azure) are advantageous.
The base salary for this position will fall between £90,000 - £110,000 Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
Striving to be both compassionate and direct with your feedback
Being team-oriented and inclusive with your actions
At Second Front Systems, we are a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of national security, and defence.. We hire the best to do their best and are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful, both inside and outside the workplace.
Competitive salary benchmarked to UK market
Private healthcare (medical, dental, and optical)
Pension scheme with employer contribution
Wellness perks (fitness, mental health resources)
Equity incentive plan
Technology and home-office stipend
Annual professional development budget
Flexible paid time off plus UK public holidays
Enhanced parental leave
Remote-first working with travel expenses covered
Referral bonus scheme
Visit our careers page to learn more.
At Second Front Systems (2F), we equip defence and national security professionals with access to emerging technologies. Founded with firsthand experience of the dangers that outdated technology poses in operational environments, our team is dedicated to fast-tracking government access to disruptive, commercially-proven technology for national security missions.
Our Game Warden platform is a fully managed and compliant DevSecOps environment that accelerates the accreditation and deployment of SaaS applications for government use. Learn more at www.secondfront.com.
Second Front Systems is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and welcome applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation, in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.
Applicants have the right to work in the United Kingdom. Due to the DV clearance requirement, candidates must be UK nationals or hold qualifying dual nationality and must have resided primarily in the UK for the period required by UKSV vetting guidelines. Sponsorship for this role is not available.
This role is a full-time permanent position. Salary will be discussed during the recruitment process. We are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments at any stage of the application process for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you ready to join our team:
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
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Candidates must be UK nationals (or hold dual nationality with the UK as one nationality) and have sufficient UK residency history to be sponsored for DV. Active DV clearance is strongly preferred. This role cannot be progressed without clearance eligibility.\n\n\nLocation: Hybrid remote (UK-based). The role requires frequent travel to customer and partner sites across the UK and NATO to support customer requirements. Candidates must be based within the UK and willing to travel as required by operational demand.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\n - Manage the full lifecycle of technical implementations within the UK government and secure cloud environments, from initial scoping to live deployment, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and to the required security and quality standards.\n\n - Act as the primary technical point of contact for UK customers during implementation, providing regular updates, managing expectations, and resolving issues with a minimum of escalation.\n\n - Provide hands-on Kubernetes expertise across deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting, ensuring best practices are applied consistently in classified and sensitive environments.\n\n - Work independently to coordinate technical requirements across internal Product, Engineering, and Growth teams, identifying and resolving blockers proactively.\n\n - Implement and continuously improve processes and tooling that increase implementation efficiency and quality, drawing on direct customer feedback.\n\n - Contribute to the development of UK-specific deployment patterns and documentation, supporting 2F’s growing presence in the UK defence, NATO and national security market.\n\n - Exhibit a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset, resolving technical and procedural challenges promptly to keep programmes on track.\n\n - Proficient in using AI tools (such as Claude and Gemini) to accelerate and enhance day-to-day work, from code generation, debugging, and documentation to research and problem-solving — with sound judgement about where AI adds value and where human oversight is required.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 5+ years of experience in technical implementation, DevOps, or a related engineering discipline, with a demonstrated ability to deliver complex projects independently.\n\n - Strong hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Keycloak and container orchestration, with proven experience deploying and managing applications at scale.\n\n - Prior experience working within UK defence tech, SaaS, or cloud-based environments.\n\n - Knowledge of compliance and security standards, particularly iUK government security frameworks and accreditation processes (e.g. JSP 604, Secure By Design)\n\n - Multi Cloud experience: AWS, Azure, GCP.\n\n - Experience working with Git and standard ticketing (JIRA) and project management tools.\n\n - Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to convey complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior government personnel.\n\n - Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams with competing priorities, maintaining quality and pace in ambiguous environments.\n\n - High degree of personal accountability and resilience; comfortable operating with autonomy in a fast-moving, distributed team.\n\n - Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent demonstrable experience. Relevant certifications (e.g. CKA, AWS, Azure) are advantageous.\n\n \n\nThe base salary for this position will fall between £90,000 - £110,000 Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.\n\n\n\n\nSUCCESS AT 2F LOOKS LIKE:\n\n - Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth\n\n - Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results\n\n - Striving to be both compassionate and direct with your feedback\n\n - Being team-oriented and inclusive with your actions\n \n\n\n\n\nPERKS & BENEFITS:\n\nAt Second Front Systems, we are a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of national security, and defence.. We hire the best to do their best and are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful, both inside and outside the workplace.\n\n - Competitive salary benchmarked to UK market\n\n - Private healthcare (medical, dental, and optical)\n\n - Pension scheme with employer contribution\n\n - Wellness perks (fitness, mental health resources)\n\n - Equity incentive plan\n\n - Technology and home-office stipend\n\n - Annual professional development budget\n\n - Flexible paid time off plus UK public holidays\n\n - Enhanced parental leave\n\n - Remote-first working with travel expenses covered\n\n - Referral bonus scheme\n\nVisit our careers page https://www.secondfront.com/company/careers to learn more.\n\n\n\n\nWHO WE ARE:\n\nAt Second Front Systems (2F), we equip defence and national security professionals with access to emerging technologies. Founded with firsthand experience of the dangers that outdated technology poses in operational environments, our team is dedicated to fast-tracking government access to disruptive, commercially-proven technology for national security missions.\n\nOur Game Warden https://www.secondfront.com/game-warden platform is a fully managed and compliant DevSecOps environment that accelerates the accreditation and deployment of SaaS applications for government use. Learn more at https://www.secondfront.comwww.secondfront.com http://www.secondfront.com.\n\n\n\n\nUK EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION:\n\nSecond Front Systems is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and welcome applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation, in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.\n\nApplicants have the right to work in the United Kingdom. Due to the DV clearance requirement, candidates must be UK nationals or hold qualifying dual nationality and must have resided primarily in the UK for the period required by UKSV vetting guidelines. Sponsorship for this role is not available.\n\nThis role is a full-time permanent position. Salary will be discussed during the recruitment process. 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At 2F we thrive on innovation and purpose, combining a start-up’s agility with a clear mission to support national security. You will be at the forefront of the DevSecOps engineering behind the deployment and scaling of our Game Warden platform — accelerating the secure adoption of mission-critical SaaS solutions for UK government and defence. If you value ingenuity, collaboration, and impact, we want to hear from you.
Security Clearance Requirement: This position requires the holder to hold, or be eligible to obtain, Developed Vetting (DV) clearance. Candidates must be UK nationals (or hold dual nationality with the UK as one nationality) and have sufficient UK residency history to be sponsored for DV. Active DV clearance is strongly preferred. As this role involves work within classified and air-gapped environments, clearance eligibility is essential and non-negotiable.
Location: Primarily remote (UK-based), with frequent travel to customer and partner sites, including Northwood and Corsham Defence Campus, and occasional travel to other UK government locations. Candidates must be based within the UK and willing to travel as operational demand requires. Note that work in air-gapped or classified environments will require on-site presence at accredited facilities.
Support the security and operations of Game Warden across air-gapped and classified environments, working directly with government partners and security teams.
Build and manage CI/CD pipelines that integrate DevSecOps best practices from development through to deployment.
Integrate and maintain SIEM and security tooling, ensuring observability and compliance across all deployed systems.
Build and implement scalable, secure cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes and Pulumi (Go-based), ensuring compliance with UK government and Ministry of Defence security requirements.
Work cross-functionally to assess infrastructure needs, prioritise development, and deliver on product roadmap milestones in a fast-paced Agile environment.
Document your work thoroughly — from infrastructure to internal procedures — to ensure secure, repeatable, and auditable deployments.
Collaborate directly with UK defence and government stakeholders to provision secure cloud resources and meet deployment and accreditation criteria in classified settings.
Contribute to R&D and experimentation needed to advance platform capabilities in secure and disconnected environments.
Act as a senior technical resource, helping to shape 2F’s UK DevSecOps strategy and infrastructure standards.
5–7+ years of relevant experience in DevSecOps, systems engineering, and software development.
Senior-level expertise designing and building cloud-native platforms using AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native application orchestration.
Strong proficiency in Golang or similar languages
Familiarity with UK and international compliance frameworks such as MOD Secure by Design, JSP 453, NCSC Cloud Security Principles, NIST 800-53.
Experience deploying systems in air-gapped or classified environments.
Experience building and maintaining secure CI/CD pipelines and integrating security throughout the SDLC.
Hands-on experience implementing or managing SIEM, monitoring, and alerting systems.
Understanding of REST APIs, authentication flows, event-driven architecture, and microservice patterns.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong documentation habits.
Comfortable working independently and in distributed teams, managing competing priorities across complex projects.
Proficient in using AI tools (such as Claude and Gemini) to accelerate and enhance day-to-day work, from code generation, debugging, and documentation to research and problem-solving — with sound judgement about where AI adds value and where human oversight is required.
Certified AWS, Google or Azure Solutions Architect.
Prior experience working within UK defence, national security, or regulated government environments.
Experience working in early-stage or high-growth start-up environments.
Familiarity with UK accreditation and risk-management processes and environments (e.g., MOD Secure by Design).
Familiarity with GitLab, Google Workspace, and Slack.
A genuine interest in national security and mission-driven innovation.
The base salary for this position will fall between £110,00000 - £130,000 Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
Striving to be both compassionate and direct with your feedback
Being team-oriented and inclusive with your actions
As a public benefit company, we are a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of national security. We hire the best to do their best and are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful, both inside and outside the workplace.
Competitive salary benchmarked to UK market
Private healthcare (medical, dental, and optical)
Pension scheme with employer contribution
Wellness perks (fitness, mental health resources)
Equity incentive plan
Technology and home-office stipend
Annual professional development budget
Flexible paid time off plus UK public holidays
Enhanced parental leave
Remote-first working with travel expenses covered
Referral bonus scheme
Visit our careers page to learn more.
Second Front Systems is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and welcome applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation, in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.
Applicants have the right to work in the United Kingdom. Due to the DV clearance requirement, candidates must be UK nationals or hold qualifying dual nationality and must have resided primarily in the UK for the period required by UKSV vetting guidelines. Sponsorship for this role is not available.
This role is a full-time permanent position. Salary will be discussed during the recruitment process. We are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments at any stage of the application process for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition.
At Second Front Systems (2F), we equip defence and national security professionals with access to emerging technologies. Founded with firsthand experience of the dangers that outdated technology poses in operational environments, our team is dedicated to fast-tracking government access to disruptive, commercially-proven technology for national security missions.
Our Game Warden platform is a fully managed and compliant DevSecOps environment that accelerates the accreditation and deployment of SaaS applications for government use. Learn more at www.secondfront.com.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you ready to join our team:
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
","descriptionPlain":"Second Front Systems (2F) is seeking an ambitious and capable Platform Engineer to join our UK team. We are a dynamic, fast-growing defence technology company at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and national security, committed to delivering transformative solutions that empower the UK’s defenders. This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in establishing and scaling our platform capability in the UK market.\n\n\n\nAt 2F we thrive on innovation and purpose, combining a start-up’s agility with a clear mission to support national security. You will be at the forefront of the DevSecOps engineering behind the deployment and scaling of our Game Warden platform — accelerating the secure adoption of mission-critical SaaS solutions for UK government and defence. If you value ingenuity, collaboration, and impact, we want to hear from you.\n\n\n\nSecurity Clearance Requirement: This position requires the holder to hold, or be eligible to obtain, Developed Vetting (DV) clearance. Candidates must be UK nationals (or hold dual nationality with the UK as one nationality) and have sufficient UK residency history to be sponsored for DV. Active DV clearance is strongly preferred. As this role involves work within classified and air-gapped environments, clearance eligibility is essential and non-negotiable.\n\n\n\nLocation: Primarily remote (UK-based), with frequent travel to customer and partner sites, including Northwood and Corsham Defence Campus, and occasional travel to other UK government locations. Candidates must be based within the UK and willing to travel as operational demand requires. Note that work in air-gapped or classified environments will require on-site presence at accredited facilities.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\n - Support the security and operations of Game Warden across air-gapped and classified environments, working directly with government partners and security teams.\n\n - Build and manage CI/CD pipelines that integrate DevSecOps best practices from development through to deployment.\n\n - Integrate and maintain SIEM and security tooling, ensuring observability and compliance across all deployed systems.\n\n - Build and implement scalable, secure cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes and Pulumi (Go-based), ensuring compliance with UK government and Ministry of Defence security requirements.\n\n - Work cross-functionally to assess infrastructure needs, prioritise development, and deliver on product roadmap milestones in a fast-paced Agile environment.\n\n - Document your work thoroughly — from infrastructure to internal procedures — to ensure secure, repeatable, and auditable deployments.\n\n - Collaborate directly with UK defence and government stakeholders to provision secure cloud resources and meet deployment and accreditation criteria in classified settings.\n\n - Contribute to R&D and experimentation needed to advance platform capabilities in secure and disconnected environments.\n\n - Act as a senior technical resource, helping to shape 2F’s UK DevSecOps strategy and infrastructure standards.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU BRING\n\n - 5–7+ years of relevant experience in DevSecOps, systems engineering, and software development.\n\n - Senior-level expertise designing and building cloud-native platforms using AWS, Azure, or GCP.\n\n - Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native application orchestration.\n\n - Strong proficiency in Golang or similar languages\n\n - Familiarity with UK and international compliance frameworks such as MOD Secure by Design, JSP 453, NCSC Cloud Security Principles, NIST 800-53.\n\n - Experience deploying systems in air-gapped or classified environments.\n\n - Experience building and maintaining secure CI/CD pipelines and integrating security throughout the SDLC.\n\n - Hands-on experience implementing or managing SIEM, monitoring, and alerting systems.\n\n - Understanding of REST APIs, authentication flows, event-driven architecture, and microservice patterns.\n\n - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong documentation habits.\n\n - Comfortable working independently and in distributed teams, managing competing priorities across complex projects.\n\n - Proficient in using AI tools (such as Claude and Gemini) to accelerate and enhance day-to-day work, from code generation, debugging, and documentation to research and problem-solving — with sound judgement about where AI adds value and where human oversight is required.\n\n - Certified AWS, Google or Azure Solutions Architect.\n\n - Prior experience working within UK defence, national security, or regulated government environments.\n\n - Experience working in early-stage or high-growth start-up environments.\n\n - Familiarity with UK accreditation and risk-management processes and environments (e.g., MOD Secure by Design).\n\n - Familiarity with GitLab, Google Workspace, and Slack.\n\n - A genuine interest in national security and mission-driven innovation.\n\n \n\nThe base salary for this position will fall between £110,00000 - £130,000 Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.\n\n \n\n\nSUCCESS AT 2F LOOKS LIKE:\n\n - Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth\n\n - Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results\n\n - Striving to be both compassionate and direct with your feedback\n\n - Being team-oriented and inclusive with your actions\n\n\n\n\nPERKS & BENEFITS:\n\nAs a public benefit company, we are a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of national security. We hire the best to do their best and are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful, both inside and outside the workplace.\n\n - Competitive salary benchmarked to UK market\n\n - Private healthcare (medical, dental, and optical)\n\n - Pension scheme with employer contribution\n\n - Wellness perks (fitness, mental health resources)\n\n - Equity incentive plan\n\n - Technology and home-office stipend\n\n - Annual professional development budget\n\n - Flexible paid time off plus UK public holidays\n\n - Enhanced parental leave\n\n - Remote-first working with travel expenses covered\n\n - Referral bonus scheme\n\nVisit our careers page https://www.secondfront.com/company/careers to learn more.\n\n\n\n\nUK EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION\n\n\nSecond Front Systems is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and welcome applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation, in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.\n\n\n\nApplicants have the right to work in the United Kingdom. Due to the DV clearance requirement, candidates must be UK nationals or hold qualifying dual nationality and must have resided primarily in the UK for the period required by UKSV vetting guidelines. Sponsorship for this role is not available.\n\n\n\nThis role is a full-time permanent position. Salary will be discussed during the recruitment process. We are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments at any stage of the application process for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition.\n\n\n\n\nWHO WE ARE:\n\nAt Second Front Systems (2F), we equip defence and national security professionals with access to emerging technologies. Founded with firsthand experience of the dangers that outdated technology poses in operational environments, our team is dedicated to fast-tracking government access to disruptive, commercially-proven technology for national security missions.\n\nOur Game Warden https://www.secondfront.com/game-warden platform is a fully managed and compliant DevSecOps environment that accelerates the accreditation and deployment of SaaS applications for government use. Learn more at https://www.secondfront.comwww.secondfront.com http://www.secondfront.com.\n\n\n\n\nONE LAST THING:\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.\n\n \n\nAre you ready to join our team:\n\n \n\nTo apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. 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Second Front Systems is looking for a technically fluent, high-ownership, metrics-driven Security Operations Center (SOC) Manager to strengthen our security operations function, architecting modern defensive capabilities across cloud-native infrastructure.
Operating at the high-stakes intersection of defense tech and national security, you will be responsible for monitoring, detecting, and responding to threats in cloud-native ecosystems and scaling defensive maturity across the organization.
You will own the SOC strategy and execution, partner across engineering and product to embed security controls into platform DNA, ensuring that mission-critical software for the free world remains secure and our defenders operate in a resilient, monitored environment.
We need someone capable of architecting and governing modern SOC functions—SIEM, EDR, automated playbooks, and threat intelligence operations; leading incident response and post-mortems that drive engineering change from containment through recovery; and scaling and mentoring security teams while building detection logic and hunt programs that intercept emerging threats.
As a key partner to engineering, product, and IT leadership, you will translate technical risk and blast radius into clear, unsentimental recommendations that move defensive maturity forward, serving as the operational authority ensuring our security infrastructure scales as fast as the missions we support.
Note: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:
• DC/Maryland/Virginia
• Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
• Denver/Colorado Springs, CO
• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
What You'll Do
• Architect the SOC strategy and roadmap, defining threat intelligence operations, detection frameworks, and defensive maturity metrics.
• Build and tune detection logic across cloud stacks, identity layers, and endpoints, rejecting noise to accelerate incident response velocity.
• Own incident command, leading containment and recovery operations while driving engineering change through rigorous post-mortems.
• Govern the defensive stack—SIEM, EDR, and automated playbooks—ensuring engineering delivers lean, high-fidelity operations at scale.
• Establish proactive threat hunting programs, synthesizing external intelligence to intercept emerging threats before they reach mission-critical systems.
• Synchronize security controls with engineering and product squads, embedding rigorous automated defenses into platform architecture.
• Mentor and scale a high-performing security operations squad, anchoring a culture built on accountability and technical craft.
• Optimize vendor and MDR relationships, ensuring third-party partnerships deliver the technical execution the mission demands.
What You Bring
8+ years in cyber operations, incident response, and threat intelligence with a minimum of 3 years leading high-agency security operations teams.
Deep technical mastery in building modern SOC functions, including SIEM architecture, EDR stack deployment, and high-fidelity incident response frameworks.
Fluency in cloud-native environments such as AWS, Kubernetes security, containerized workload defense, and logging pipeline engineering.
Proven track record engineering detection logic and automated playbooks that scale defensive operations and reduce alert noise.
Ability to mentor technical talent and lead complex security initiatives through ambiguity in high-growth startup environments.
Clear communication skills, translating technical blast radius and complex risk into unsentimental recommendations for leadership.
Expertise in navigating FedRAMP, DoD SRG, and CMMC compliance in regulated government and defense environments.
Hands-on experience in scripting and automation engineering using Python, Terraform, and SOAR playbooks for detection and response tooling development.
U.S. citizenship is required for this role.
Preferred
The base salary for this position will fall between $205,000 and $215,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
Success at 2F Looks Like:
• A proactive and solutions oriented mindset
• Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
• Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
• Being team-oriented with a focus on personal responsibility and autonomy
Perks & Benefits:
This role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.
Perks of Joining Our Team:
• Competitive salary
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution
• Comprehensive wellness benefits, including a One Medical membership, mental health resources, family planning support, and more
• Equity incentive plan
• New hire technology and home office stipend
• Annual professional development stipend
• Flexible paid time off, plus all federal holidays
• Generous parental leave
• Flexible remote work opportunities
• Employee referral bonus program
Who We Are:
Second Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world’s leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they’re needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. Learn more at secondfront.com.
One last thing:
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you ready to join our team:
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
State notices:
Colorado:
In accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.
Maryland:
Under Maryland law, an employer may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination or similar test. An employer who violates this law is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding $100.
www.secondfront.com | All Rights Reserved | 2026
","descriptionPlain":"SOC Manager\n\nSecond Front Systems is looking for a technically fluent, high-ownership, metrics-driven Security Operations Center (SOC) Manager to strengthen our security operations function, architecting modern defensive capabilities across cloud-native infrastructure.\n\nOperating at the high-stakes intersection of defense tech and national security, you will be responsible for monitoring, detecting, and responding to threats in cloud-native ecosystems and scaling defensive maturity across the organization.\n\nYou will own the SOC strategy and execution, partner across engineering and product to embed security controls into platform DNA, ensuring that mission-critical software for the free world remains secure and our defenders operate in a resilient, monitored environment.\n\nWe need someone capable of architecting and governing modern SOC functions—SIEM, EDR, automated playbooks, and threat intelligence operations; leading incident response and post-mortems that drive engineering change from containment through recovery; and scaling and mentoring security teams while building detection logic and hunt programs that intercept emerging threats.\n\nAs a key partner to engineering, product, and IT leadership, you will translate technical risk and blast radius into clear, unsentimental recommendations that move defensive maturity forward, serving as the operational authority ensuring our security infrastructure scales as fast as the missions we support.\n\nNote: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:\n\n• DC/Maryland/Virginia\n\n• Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC\n\n• Denver/Colorado Springs, CO\n\n• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Do\n\n• Architect the SOC strategy and roadmap, defining threat intelligence operations, detection frameworks, and defensive maturity metrics.\n\n• Build and tune detection logic across cloud stacks, identity layers, and endpoints, rejecting noise to accelerate incident response velocity.\n\n• Own incident command, leading containment and recovery operations while driving engineering change through rigorous post-mortems.\n\n• Govern the defensive stack—SIEM, EDR, and automated playbooks—ensuring engineering delivers lean, high-fidelity operations at scale.\n\n• Establish proactive threat hunting programs, synthesizing external intelligence to intercept emerging threats before they reach mission-critical systems.\n\n• Synchronize security controls with engineering and product squads, embedding rigorous automated defenses into platform architecture.\n\n• Mentor and scale a high-performing security operations squad, anchoring a culture built on accountability and technical craft.\n\n• Optimize vendor and MDR relationships, ensuring third-party partnerships deliver the technical execution the mission demands.\n\n\n\nWhat You Bring\n\n - 8+ years in cyber operations, incident response, and threat intelligence with a minimum of 3 years leading high-agency security operations teams.\n\n - Deep technical mastery in building modern SOC functions, including SIEM architecture, EDR stack deployment, and high-fidelity incident response frameworks.\n\n - Fluency in cloud-native environments such as AWS, Kubernetes security, containerized workload defense, and logging pipeline engineering.\n\n - Proven track record engineering detection logic and automated playbooks that scale defensive operations and reduce alert noise.\n\n - Ability to mentor technical talent and lead complex security initiatives through ambiguity in high-growth startup environments.\n\n - Clear communication skills, translating technical blast radius and complex risk into unsentimental recommendations for leadership.\n\n - Expertise in navigating FedRAMP, DoD SRG, and CMMC compliance in regulated government and defense environments.\n\n - Hands-on experience in scripting and automation engineering using Python, Terraform, and SOAR playbooks for detection and response tooling development.\n\n - U.S. citizenship is required for this role.\n\n\n\nPreferred\n\nThe base salary for this position will fall between $205,000 and $215,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.\n\n\n\nSuccess at 2F Looks Like:\n\n• A proactive and solutions oriented mindset\n\n• Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth\n\n• Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results\n\n• Being team-oriented with a focus on personal responsibility and autonomy\n\n\n\nPerks & Benefits:\n\nThis role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.\n\n\n\nPerks of Joining Our Team:\n\n• Competitive salary\n\n• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents\n\n• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution\n\n• Comprehensive wellness benefits, including a One Medical membership, mental health resources, family planning support, and more\n\n• Equity incentive plan\n\n• New hire technology and home office stipend\n\n• Annual professional development stipend\n\n• Flexible paid time off, plus all federal holidays\n\n• Generous parental leave\n\n• Flexible remote work opportunities\n\n• Employee referral bonus program\n\n\n\nWho We Are:\n\nSecond Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world’s leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they’re needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. Learn more at secondfront.com http://secondfront.com.\n\n\n\nOne last thing:\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.\n\n\n\nAre you ready to join our team:\n\nTo apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.\n\n\n\nState notices:\n\nColorado:\n\nIn accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.\n\nMaryland:\n\nUnder Maryland law, an employer may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination or similar test. An employer who violates this law is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding $100.\n\nwww.secondfront.com http://www.secondfront.com | All Rights Reserved | 2026","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"346bd38d-0c08-409b-aa99-4f5b332a49d5","title":"UX Designer ","department":"Product Management","team":"Product Management","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Remote","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-21T14:30:09.484+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Remote","address":{"postalAddress":{"postalCode":"20002","addressRegion":"District of Columbia ","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Washington, DC"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Second-Front-Systems/346bd38d-0c08-409b-aa99-4f5b332a49d5","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Second-Front-Systems/346bd38d-0c08-409b-aa99-4f5b332a49d5/application","descriptionHtml":"Second Front Systems is looking for an unusually resourceful, detail-obsessed UX Designer to strengthen our product organization and customer-facing capabilities.
Operating at the intersection of defense technology requirements and software usability, you will be responsible for designing interfaces and workflows for classified defense operations.
You will conduct user research with warfighters and mission operators to validate design decisions, ensuring that systems remain intuitive under operational stress and meet accreditation standards.
We need someone capable of translating complex mission requirements into clear, navigable product experiences; working within security constraints and government certification processes without compromising usability; and collaborating with engineers and product managers to deliver designs that deploy reliably in contested environments.
As a key partner to product leadership, engineering, and end-user communities, you will shape the interface layer that determines warfighter effectiveness and mission success, serving as the voice of operator needs within product decisions.
Note: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:
• DC/Maryland/Virginia
• Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
• Denver/Colorado Springs, CO
• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
What You'll Do
• Drive prompt-to-prototype workflows using Claude Design and Claude Code to translate user needs and technical requirements into functional prototypes and high-fidelity interfaces.
• Partner in rapid feedback loops with engineering teams to build, test, and refine interactive prototypes and production features leveraging AI tools.
• Own the end-to-end user experience for deployment, configuration, and accreditation workflows within the customer application.
• Translate complex compliance and technical requirements into intuitive, accessible user journeys in collaboration with product managers and domain experts.
• Conduct user research with commercial software providers through interviews, usability testing, and surveys to uncover pain points and validate design directions.
• Maintain and scale the design system to ensure visual quality, accessibility, and interaction consistency across iteration cycles.
• Champion user-centered design principles throughout the product lifecycle, balancing user needs against technical feasibility and speed.
What You Bring
• 3+ years of professional experience as a Product Designer, UX Designer, or UI Designer for complex web applications or SaaS products.
• Proven proficiency with Claude Design, Claude Code, and Figma for prompt-to-prototype workflows and design systems.
• Demonstrated ability to work synchronously with AI-assisted engineering teams in fast-paced, collaborative agile environments.
• Strong portfolio showing design process, problem-solving, and real-world examples of simplifying complex technical workflows into user-friendly applications.
• Experience executing user research methodologies and translating feedback into actionable design adjustments.
• Solid grounding in information architecture, interaction design, visual hierarchy, and user-centered design principles.
• Familiarity with government compliance frameworks such as ATO, FedRAMP, or NIST 800-53 and accreditation workflows.
• U.S. citizenship required due to government contract requirements.
Preferred
The base salary for this position will fall between $120,000 and $145,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
Success at 2F Looks Like:
• A proactive and solutions oriented mindset
• Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
• Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
• Being team-oriented with a focus on personal responsibility and autonomy
Perks & Benefits:
This role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.
Perks of Joining Our Team:
• Competitive salary
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution
• Comprehensive wellness benefits, including a One Medical membership, mental health resources, family planning support, and more
• Equity incentive plan
• New hire technology and home office stipend
• Annual professional development stipend
• Flexible paid time off, plus all federal holidays
• Generous parental leave
• Flexible remote work opportunities
• Employee referral bonus program
Visit our careers page to learn more.
Who We Are:
Second Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world’s leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they’re needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. Learn more at secondfront.com.
One last thing:
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you ready to join our team:
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
State notices:
Colorado:
In accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.
Maryland:
Under Maryland law, an employer may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination or similar test. An employer who violates this law is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding $100
Second Front Systems is looking for a technically fluent, mission-driven, high-agency Senior Enterprise Mission Success Manager to own our most complex and strategic customer relationships.
Operating at the frontline of the Second Front customer journey, you will be responsible for the success of a focused portfolio of enterprise customers, guiding their experience from the moment they sign with Second Front, through kickoff, implementation, authorization, steady-state support, and renewal. These accounts involve complex architectures, multiple products or programs, demanding timelines, and senior stakeholders on both the commercial and government side.
You will serve as the dedicated primary point of contact and trusted technical advisor for these customers as they deploy on Game Warden, acting as the daily connective tissue between customers, engineering, security, and product. You will go deep on the technical details, anticipate risks before they become escalations, and ensure your customers achieve authorization and secure deployment of their SaaS solutions.
As a key partner to essentially every function within the Second Front ecosystem, you will be the core connective tissue between those teams and our customers, serving as not just a critical link to them, but also to the missions that our customers support.
Note: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:
• DC/Maryland/Virginia
• Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
• Denver/Colorado Springs, CO
• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
What You'll Do
Own a portfolio of high-value, technically complex enterprise accounts, serving as trusted advisor to customer engineering, security, and executive leadership.
Lead customer kickoffs, onboarding, regular syncs, and executive-level Quarterly Business Reviews, including account plans and success roadmaps.
Guide customers through complex technical implementations, including containerization, Kubernetes-based deployments, CI/CD integration, and architecture decisions that affect authorization.
Navigate customers through Authority to Operate and FedRAMP processes, including higher DoD impact levels (IL4/IL5), and proactively resolve security and compliance blockers.
Own high-severity technical escalations end to end, diagnosing issues alongside support, engineering, and security teams and driving them to resolution.
Manage multi-stakeholder, multi-program relationships, aligning commercial customers, government sponsors, and program offices around shared outcomes.
Own renewal and expansion strategy for enterprise accounts, identifying growth opportunities and partnering with Sales on larger, multi-year contracts.
Translate deep technical feedback from deployed customers into specific, prioritized product roadmap recommendations.
Mentor Mission Success Managers and contribute to team playbooks, technical enablement, and best practices.
What You Bring
7+ years in customer/mission success, technical account management, solutions engineering, or technical delivery, preferably supporting PaaS or cloud infrastructure in government contracts.
Direct experience working in or supporting the Department of War (DoW) or Federal Civilian agencies.
Fluency with cloud-native technologies such as containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Strong working knowledge of ATO, FedRAMP, DoD Cloud Computing SRG impact levels, or equivalent compliance frameworks.
Proven track record managing large, complex enterprise accounts with multiple technical and executive stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to own and resolve difficult technical escalations under pressure.
Experience driving renewals and expansion.
U.S. citizenship is required for this role.
Preferred
Experience with continuous ATO (cATO), DevSecOps practices, or container security and vulnerability management.
Experience in fast-paced startup environments.
Operational fluency with Salesforce for CRM pipeline management and Jira for ticketing and cross-functional collaboration.
Active security clearance or eligibility to obtain one.
The base salary for this position will fall between $160,000 and $175,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
Success at 2F Looks Like:
• A proactive and solutions oriented mindset
• Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
• Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
• Being team-oriented with a focus on personal responsibility and autonomy
Perks & Benefits:
This role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.
Perks of Joining Our Team:
• Competitive salary
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution
• Comprehensive wellness benefits, including a One Medical membership, mental health resources, family planning support, and more
• Equity incentive plan
• New hire technology and home office stipend
• Annual professional development stipend
• Flexible paid time off, plus all federal holidays
• Generous parental leave
• Flexible remote work opportunities
• Employee referral bonus program
Visit our careers page to learn more.
Who We Are:
Second Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world’s leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they’re needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. Learn more at secondfront.com.
One last thing:
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you ready to join our team:
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
State notices:
Colorado:
In accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.
Maryland:
Under Maryland law, an employer may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination or similar test. An employer who violates this law is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding $100.
Second Front Systems is looking for a technically credible, mission-focused, customer-oriented Solutions Engineer to strengthen our sales and customer success organization.
Operating at the intersection of commercial software and government accreditation, you will be responsible for owning technical sales conversations, demonstrating Game Warden's fit for mission-critical SaaS deployment, and bridging customer needs with product capability.
You will lead technical presentations, architecture workshops, and RFP responses; assess application compatibility with Game Warden; track customer feedback to inform product roadmap alignment, ensuring that customers understand deployment paths, technical risk is mitigated, and sales pipeline advances with confidence.
We need someone capable of translating cloud and DevSecOps concepts for audiences ranging from C-level to engineering teams, operating hands-on with AWS or GCP infrastructure and demonstrating platform knowledge in real time, and remain decisive under pressure in pre-sales and compliance conversations.
As a key partner to account executives and the product team, you will represent 2F as a trusted technical advisor, remove barriers to government adoption of Game Warden, serving as the technical voice customers rely on throughout the sales cycle.
Note: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:
• DC/Maryland/Virginia
• Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
• Denver/Colorado Springs, CO
• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
This is a full-time position.
What You'll Do
• Own the technical aspects of pre-sales pipeline, partnering with account executives from initial contact through RFP response.
• Lead introduction calls, technical demonstrations, architecture workshops, and RFI/RFP engagements with government and commercial customers.
• Assess customer applications for compatibility with Game Warden and DevSecOps deployment on AWS or GCP.
• Develop and maintain deep technical knowledge of Game Warden, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and the surrounding platform ecosystem.
• Synchronize customer feedback with product teams to inform roadmap priorities and feature alignment.
• Generate technical marketing content—blogs, whitepapers, case studies—that accelerates business development.
• Engage customers on cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps tooling, compliance accreditation, and cybersecurity architecture.
What You Bring
• 3+ years in customer-facing Sales, Solutions Engineering, or Success roles; demonstrated ability to influence technical decision-makers.
• 2+ years hands-on experience deploying or architecting on AWS, GCP, or Azure; certification or active pursuit required.
• 3–5 years of technical depth as a software engineer, sales engineer, or technical PM with proven problem-solving in production environments.
• 2+ year software development experience, preferably full-stack web development (React, Angular, Spring, Python, or Go).
• Operational knowledge of DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD), and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders; composure in high-stakes customer situations.
• U.S. citizenship and residency in an approved hiring hub: DC/Maryland/Virginia, Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill NC, Denver/Colorado Springs CO, or Dallas/Fort Worth TX.
• Ability to travel up to 25% for customer engagements and market-facing activities.
U.S. citizenship is required for this role.
Preferred
• Federal or commercial sales experience.
• Previous military or federal experience.
The base salary for this position will fall between $130,000 and $175,000. This also comes with a variable bonus tied to commission and performance. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
Success at 2F Looks Like:
• A proactive and solutions oriented mindset
• Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
• Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
• Being team-oriented with a focus on personal responsibility and autonomy
Perks & Benefits:
This role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.
Perks of Joining Our Team:
• Competitive salary
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution
• Comprehensive wellness benefits, including a One Medical membership, mental health resources, family planning support, and more
• Equity incentive plan
• New hire technology and home office stipend
• Annual professional development stipend
• Flexible paid time off, plus all federal holidays
• Generous parental leave
• Flexible remote work opportunities
• Employee referral bonus program
Visit our careers page to learn more.
Who We Are:
Second Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world’s leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they’re needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. Learn more at secondfront.com.
One last thing:
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you ready to join our team:
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
State notices:
Colorado:
In accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.
Maryland:
Under Maryland law, an employer may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination or similar test. An employer who violates this law is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding $100.
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We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.\n\n\n\nPerks of Joining Our Team:\n\n• Competitive salary\n\n• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents\n\n• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution\n\n• Comprehensive wellness benefits, including a One Medical membership, mental health resources, family planning support, and more\n\n• Equity incentive plan\n\n• New hire technology and home office stipend\n\n• Annual professional development stipend\n\n• Flexible paid time off, plus all federal holidays\n\n• Generous parental leave\n\n• Flexible remote work opportunities\n\n• Employee referral bonus program\n\nVisit our careers page to learn more.\n\n\n\nWho We Are:\n\nSecond Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. 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Reporting to the VP of Finance, you will own the full data lifecycle across the company - from systems integration and data architecture through business intelligence, reporting, and analysis.
This is a highly hands-on, player-coach role for someone who is excited to create the foundation, not inherit it. Our core systems and tools are in place, and reporting is accurate, but much of it is labor intensive, and our data structure is early in its maturity. You will establish the architecture, processes, governance, and reporting capabilities needed to create a trusted, scalable source of truth across the organization.
You will work closely with leaders and teams across Finance, Go-to-Market, Mission, Product, Services, Support, Engineering, People, and Operations. You will connect and structure disparate data sources, define consistent metrics, and answer the questions those teams are actually asking. A key part of the role is partnering directly with leadership to build the automated and recurring management, executive, and board reporting that improves visibility into company performance and supports faster, better decisions.
Success here means moving seamlessly between strategy and execution by designing the long-term vision for the function while personally getting into the data, building integrations and models, creating dashboards, and solving complex business questions. Over time, you will build and develop a high-performing analytics team as the needs of the business scale.
Note: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:
• DC/Maryland/Virginia
• Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
• Denver/Colorado Springs, CO
• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
This is a full-time position.
What You'll Do
• Architect the company's data warehouse, cloud platform, pipelines, data models, and BI infrastructure to replace ad-hoc reporting with reliable, reusable assets.
• Establish governance, definitions, and lineage for company KPIs so metrics live in one governed place and survive audit and investor scrutiny.
• Build automated, recurring dashboards and operating reviews for department leaders, executives, the board, and investors—timely, consistent, and decision-useful.
• Govern self-service analytics capabilities so teams answer their own recurring questions without sacrificing consistency or data quality.
• Own platform decisions, vendor relationships, reliability, cost, scalability, and security posture across the data tooling ecosystem.
• Synchronize data across ERP, CRM, planning systems, spend management, HRIS, product telemetry, contract and program systems, and third-party sources.
• Partner with Finance, GTM and Revenue Operations, Mission and Programs, Product, Engineering, and Operations to identify trends and drive decisions with evidence.
• Establish standards for code review, documentation, and quality; set the roadmap, prioritization process, and intake model for the function.
• Build analytics across mixed revenue models—commercial subscriptions, federal contracts and grants, and professional services—ensuring metrics hold up to accounting and audit requirements.
• Hire, onboard, and develop a high-performing analytics team as the business scales; manage the data tooling budget and vendor relationships.
What You Bring
• 8+ years in data, analytics, or business intelligence, including 3+ years leading a function, a team, or a company-wide data initiative.
• Demonstrated experience building an analytics capability where little or none existed — you have done the zero-to-one version of this, not only operated a mature stack.
• Advanced SQL and deep hands-on experience building with modern data stacks, such as cloud warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or Redshift), transformation frameworks (dbt or equivalent), ingestion tooling, semantic layers, and BI platforms (Looker, Power BI, Tableau, Sigma, or similar). You do not need to have used every tool listed, but you should be capable of architecting and building across the stack.
• Working knowledge of SaaS business and financial metrics — ARR and its movements, retention, CAC and payback, gross margin, cohort behavior — and the judgment to recognize when a metric is being calculated in a way that will not survive scrutiny.
• Experience building reporting consumed by executives, boards, or investors, with the accuracy discipline that implies.
• A track record of designing data governance frameworks that enforce metric definitions across competing business units—finance, sales, engineering—without freezing the organization or spawning workarounds.
• Ability to translate between a technical implementation and a business decision, in both directions, without losing either audience.
• Comfort with ambiguity and with owning outcomes rather than tickets. This is a build role.
• U.S. citizenship is required for this role.
Preferred
• Experience in a scaling B2B software or technology company, ideally in the ~$10M–$200M ARR/revenue range and during a period of rapid growth.
• Experience reporting on a mixed revenue model — subscription revenue alongside government contracting (fixed-price, FAR-based) and professional services — and familiarity with the reporting expectations that come with federal or regulated-industry customers.
• Python or R for analysis beyond what SQL handles well.
The base salary for this position will fall between $200,000 and $230,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
Success at 2F Looks Like:
• A proactive and solutions oriented mindset
• Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
• Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
• Being team-oriented with a focus on personal responsibility and autonomy
Perks & Benefits:
This role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.
Perks of Joining Our Team:
• Competitive salary
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution
• Comprehensive wellness benefits, including a One Medical membership, mental health resources, family planning support, and more
• Equity incentive plan
• New hire technology and home office stipend
• Annual professional development stipend
• Flexible paid time off, plus all federal holidays
• Generous parental leave
• Flexible remote work opportunities
• Employee referral bonus program
Visit our careers page to learn more.
Who We Are:
Second Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world’s leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they’re needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. Learn more at secondfront.com.
One last thing:
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you ready to join our team:
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
State notices:
Colorado:
In accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.
Maryland:
Under Maryland law, an employer may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination or similar test. An employer who violates this law is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding $100.
Second Front Systems is looking for a sharp, detail-oriented, data-driven Revenue Operations Analyst to help keep our revenue engine accurate, visible and running smoothly.
We're a defense-technology company where precision and compliance drive outcomes. In this role you'll be hands-on with the data, systems and processes behind how revenue flows through 2F, from first pipeline to booking, renewal and expansion, across our commercial, federal and international sales motions.
Reporting to our Manager of Revenue Operations, and part of a team led by our Director of Revenue Operations, you'll support forecasting, pipeline reporting, deal desk, sales compensation and Salesforce data quality. The goal is clean data, reliable reporting and fast, accurate answers that help Sales, Finance and leadership make better decisions.
This is a high-visibility role with real room to grow. Your work will power the forecast, dashboards and comp numbers that leadership and the board rely on, and you'll see firsthand how complex commercial and government deals come together. You'll get broad exposure across forecasting, deal desk, sales compensation and Salesforce, direct mentorship, and more ownership as the team scales.
Note: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:
• DC/Maryland/Virginia
• Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
• Denver/Colorado Springs, CO
• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
This is a full-time position.
What You'll Do
• Keep pipeline data clean and trustworthy. Catch missing fields, stale opportunities and stage errors in Salesforce across commercial, federal, and international business units.
• Build and maintain reporting. Create and own Salesforce reports and dashboards for pipeline, bookings, win rates, sales cycle length, renewals and retention, so Sales, Finance and leadership all work from the same numbers.
• Support the forecast cadence. Prepare weekly forecast and pipeline review materials, track changes week over week, and flag deals at risk of slipping or being lost.
• Turn data into insight. Answer ad hoc questions from Sales and leadership, dig into trends and anomalies, and turn findings into clear, concise recommendations.
• Support deal desk and quote-to-cash. Review quotes and deal structures in DealHub and Salesforce for pricing accuracy, approvals and contract terms, and help keep deals moving quickly.
• Conduct sales compensation. Support quota tracking, crediting and monthly commission calculations, reconcile payouts with Finance, and answer rep questions quickly and accurately.
• Improve processes and systems. Document RevOps processes and definitions, find manual work to automate, and help roll out Salesforce improvements with our Senior Salesforce Solutions Architect.
• Support planning and enablement. Help with territory, capacity and quota analysis during annual planning, and help train GTM teams on tools, fields and process changes.
What You Bring
2–4 years of experience in Revenue Operations, Sales Operations, Business Operations, FP&A, or a similar analytical role, ideally at a B2B software company.
Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, including lookups, pivot tables, and building clean, reusable models.
Comfort working with Sales, Finance, and Customer Success teams, and handling multiple requests with competing deadlines.
Curiosity and a builder mindset: you ask why the numbers look the way they do, and you look for ways to make the process better.
Hands-on Salesforce experience, including building reports and dashboards, working with opportunity data, and understanding how objects and fields fit together.
Comfort with ambiguity in a fast-growing company, and an appetite to learn and take on more ownership over time.
U.S. citizenship is required for this role.
Preferred
• Salesforce Administrator certification(s) (Advanced Administrator, Platform App Builder, Business Analyst, and/or Sales Cloud Consultant a plus).
• Experience with DealHub or another CPQ tool, and with quote-to-cash workflows.
• Exposure to sales compensation administration.
• Working knowledge of SQL or a BI tool such as Tableau, Looker or Power BI.
• Experience in GovTech, defense or public-sector software, including familiarity with federal contract vehicles and government fiscal cycles.
The base salary for this position will fall between $90,000 and $100,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
One last thing:
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you ready to join our team:
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
State notices:
Colorado:
In accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.
Maryland:
Under Maryland law, an employer may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination or similar test. An employer who violates this law is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding $100.
Second Front Systems is looking for a technically fluent, decisive, metrics-driven Manager of Revenue Operations to help scale our revenue engine and lead the team that runs it every day.
We're a defense-technology company where precision and compliance drive outcomes. In this role you'll help design, run and explain how revenue flows through 2F, from first pipeline to booking, renewal and expansion, across our commercial, federal, and international sales motions.
Reporting to our Director of Revenue Operations, you'll run the day-to-day operating model behind our go-to-market (GTM) organization, from planning, quotas and sales compensation to pipeline, forecasting, and deal desk. The goal is a forecast leadership can trust, deals that move cleanly from opportunity to contract, and reported revenue that stays accurate from booking through renewal, all backed by one source of truth we can defend.
We need someone who can build scalable revenue infrastructure, lead change across teams without formal authority, and shape the roadmap for our GTM tech stack.
You'll be a key partner to Sales, Finance, Marketing and Mission Success leaders. You'll bring discipline, accountability and a bias for action to every stage of the customer lifecycle, serving as the operational backbone of the revenue organization and a trusted voice on revenue performance.
Note: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:
• DC/Maryland/Virginia
• Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
• Denver/Colorado Springs, CO
• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
This is a full-time position.
What You'll Do
• Own the forecast. Model pipeline coverage, conversion and velocity, and build predictive forecasts that hold up quarter to quarter and inform long-term growth plans. Run the weekly forecast cadence and quarterly pipeline reviews across new business, renewals and expansion.
• Protect revenue integrity with Finance. Keep bookings, billing, contract terms and revenue recognition inputs aligned. Reconcile CRM, CPQ and financial systems so what we sell, bill and report always match, and support the monthly close and board reporting.
• Run planning, quotas and incentive comp. Partner with Sales, Finance and leadership on territory and capacity planning, quota setting and incentive plan design. Own plan documentation, crediting logic and payout accuracy.
• Own pipeline integrity end to end. Keep Salesforce data accurate across commercial and federal deals, and track the details that make defense deals hard to forecast, such as contract vehicles, funding timing, government fiscal-year cycles and accreditation milestones.
• Turn data into decisions. Build the metrics, dashboards and analysis that give 2F leadership a clear, executive-ready view of performance, so they can make confident calls on where to invest, what to prioritize and how we're tracking against targets.
• Standardize the deal lifecycle. Set stage criteria, qualification standards and deal review discipline. Make sure every deal moves cleanly from opportunity to contract to customer handoff, with deal terms, accreditation requirements and go-live timelines carried through.
• Align teams on revenue and delivery. Connect sales targets, pricing and contract terms to customer success and delivery capacity, so commitments are delivered on time and stay profitable after signature.
• Shape the GTM tech stack. Set priorities for Salesforce, DealHub and connected tools, partner with our Senior Salesforce Solutions Architect to scope and roll out improvements, and drive adoption so our systems reflect how we actually sell.
• Lead and grow the team. Manage and coach the Revenue Operations Analyst as a player-coach: set clear priorities and quality standards, review work, and create real growth opportunities. Build the documentation, playbooks and operating rhythms that let RevOps scale as 2F grows.
What You Bring
5+ years of experience in Revenue Operations, Sales Operations, Business Operations, or Strategy & Operations, ideally at a high-growth B2B software company
2+ years managing people or leading cross-functional programs as a player-coach, with measurable outcomes
A track record of building forecasting models and pipeline governance that measurably improved forecast accuracy
Deep hands-on Salesforce expertise across data architecture, reporting, and governance, plus experience with CPQ platforms and quote-to-cash workflows
Financial acumen to partner with Finance on bookings, billing, and revenue recognition inputs, and to reconcile them across systems
Strong analytical skills: advanced Excel or Google Sheets, working proficiency in SQL and BI tools, and experience turning large datasets into clear recommendations
Excellent stakeholder management and ability to lead change without formal authority, plus comfort building and documenting process in a scaling, sometimes ambiguous organization
Experience supporting complex, long-cycle, multi-stakeholder sales, such as enterprise, government, or regulated-industry deals
U.S. citizenship is required for this role
Preferred
• Hands-on experience with Salesforce and DealHub, plus the broader GTM stack.
• Experience designing or administering sales and customer success compensation plans.
• Experience in GovTech, defense or public-sector software, including familiarity with federal contract vehicles, option-year structures, government fiscal cycles and accreditation requirements.
The base salary for this position will fall between $155,000 and $165,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
Success at 2F Looks Like:
• A proactive and solutions oriented mindset
• Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
• Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
• Being team-oriented with a focus on personal responsibility and autonomy
Perks & Benefits:
This role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.
Perks of Joining Our Team:
• Competitive salary
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution
• Comprehensive wellness benefits, including a One Medical membership, mental health resources, family planning support, and more
• Equity incentive plan
• New hire technology and home office stipend
• Annual professional development stipend
• Flexible paid time off, plus all federal holidays
• Generous parental leave
• Flexible remote work opportunities
• Employee referral bonus program
Visit our careers page to learn more.
Who We Are:
Second Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world’s leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they’re needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. Learn more at secondfront.com.
One last thing:
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you ready to join our team:
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
State notices:
Colorado:
In accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.
Maryland:
Under Maryland law, an employer may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination or similar test. An employer who violates this law is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding $100.
Head of Security Compliance & Authorization
Second Front Systems (2F) is seeking a Head of Security Compliance & Authorization to lead the security programs that protect our Game Warden platform and enable its use across national security environments. Reporting to the Vice President of Security, this leader will own corporate compliance programs (SOC 2, ISO, CMMC, etc.) and security authorization for the Game Warden platform (RMF/FedRAMP).. You will lead the Security Authorization team, establish priorities and operating rhythms, and ensure the organization has the processes, technical capabilities, and evidence required to support secure product delivery and maintain government authorizations.
You will work closely with Product, Engineering, Platform, Legal, and business leadership to integrate security throughout the product lifecycle. This includes secure architecture, application security, vulnerability management, control implementation, authorization strategy, assessment readiness, and continuous monitoring.
This is a leadership role for someone who can build durable programs, develop high-performing teams, and bring structure to complex security and compliance requirements. The successful candidate will understand both cloud-native engineering and government authorization, with the judgment to balance mission delivery, customer commitments, technical risk, and regulatory expectations.
Note: Candidates must reside in our DC/Maryland/Virginia hiring hub
This is a full-time position.
What You'll Do
• Lead the Security Authorization and Compliance team.
• Establish the product security and compliance strategy for Game Warden in alignment with the company’s business objectives, product roadmap, customer commitments, and enterprise security strategy.
• Define ownership and operating processes for security authorization and continuous monitoring, including the handoffs with Engineering and Security Operations.
• Build a security roadmap that identifies capability gaps, required investments, staffing needs, technical dependencies, and measurable outcomes.
• Provide leadership oversight for security authorization packages supporting Department of Defense, federal, and other national security environments.
• Ensure authorization packages, control implementations, assessment evidence, POA&Ms, and continuous monitoring activities remain accurate, current, and defensible.
• Establish the standards and quality controls used by Security Authorization Specialists to manage eMASS packages, DISA PPSM registrations, assessment evidence, findings, and authorization documentation.
• Direct readiness activities for security assessments, third-party reviews, government audits, and authorization decisions. Ensure teams address issues before they become assessment blockers.
• Own the corporate audit calendar.
• Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to integrate security requirements into product planning, architecture decisions, release processes, and engineering priorities.
• Track and report vulnerability/configuration findings against authorization and compliance impact of significant changes.
• Review significant product and infrastructure changes to determine their effect on security controls, authorization boundaries, inherited services, customer commitments, and existing approvals.
• Create a coordinated compliance approach across applicable frameworks, including DoD RMF, FedRAMP, CMMC, SOC 2, ISO standards, and other customer or market requirements.
• Reduce duplicate work by establishing reusable controls, shared evidence, common documentation, and cross-framework mappings.
• Expand the use of automation for control validation, evidence collection, continuous monitoring, compliance reporting, and authorization-package maintenance.
• Establish meaningful metrics for product risk, vulnerabilities, remediation performance, assessment readiness, POA&M health, authorization milestones, and program capacity.
• Provide the Vice President of Security and executive leadership with clear reporting on material risks, program status, resource constraints, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
• Manage relevant vendors, assessment partners, penetration testing providers, and GRC technology investments.
• Coordinate with Security Operations and Incident Response teams when events affect authorizations or attestations.
What You Bring
Over 10 years of progressive cybersecurity experience, with significant responsibility for product security, cloud security, security engineering, compliance, or government authorization programs.
More than five years of experience leading cybersecurity professionals, including success in setting priorities, developing talent, managing performance, and scaling teams.
Experience owning security programs for cloud platforms, SaaS products, PaaS environments, or similarly complex technology organizations.
Demonstrated success integrating security into product development and engineering workflows without unnecessary barriers to delivery.
Strong knowledge in application security, cloud security architecture, vulnerability management, secure software development, and software supply chain risk.
Practical understanding of AWS, Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, identity and access management, logging, observability, and cloud-native security patterns.
Experience establishing or governing application security capabilities such as SAST, DAST, software composition analysis, secrets detection, container scanning, and penetration testing.
Direct experience with government security authorization programs, including NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-37, DoD RMF, FedRAMP
U.S. citizenship is required for this role.
Preferred
• Active TS/SCI clearance or current eligibility.
• Experience supporting DoD Impact Level 4 or Impact Level 5 cloud environments.
• Experience leading FedRAMP Moderate or FedRAMP High authorization and continuous monitoring programs.
• Experience with Kubernetes-based DevSecOps platforms or multi-tenant cloud environments supporting government customers.
• Familiarity with CMMC, SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 20000-1, Cyber Essentials Plus, or international security assurance requirements.
• Experience implementing automated control testing, compliance as code, or continuous evidence collection.
• Experience developing a common control framework that supports multiple authorization and certification programs.
• Experience managing third-party assessors, penetration testing providers, GRC platforms, and security technology vendors.
• Advanced certifications such as CISM, CCSP, CSSLP, PMP, or CGRC.
• Prior experience supporting national security, defense, intelligence, or other highly regulated customers.
• A strong commitment to Second Front Systems’ mission of accelerating the secure delivery of mission-critical software to the U.S. government.
The base salary for this position will fall between $200,000 and $215,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
Success at 2F Looks Like:
• A proactive and solutions oriented mindset
• Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
• Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
• Being team-oriented with a focus on personal responsibility and autonomy
Perks & Benefits:
This role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.
Perks of Joining Our Team:
• Competitive salary
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution
• Comprehensive wellness benefits, including a One Medical membership, mental health resources, family planning support, and more
• Equity incentive plan
• New hire technology and home office stipend
• Annual professional development stipend
• Flexible paid time off, plus all federal holidays
• Generous parental leave
• Flexible remote work opportunities
• Employee referral bonus program
Visit our careers page to learn more.
Who We Are:
Second Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world’s leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they’re needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. Learn more at secondfront.com.
One last thing:
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you ready to join our team:
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
State notices:
Colorado:
In accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.
Maryland:
Under Maryland law, an employer may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination or similar test. An employer who violates this law is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding $100.
People Operations Specialist
Second Front Systems is looking for a detail-oriented, methodical, mission-driven People Operations Specialist to strengthen our quality assurance operations.
Operating at the intersection of software validation and defense accreditation requirements, you will be responsible for designing and executing test plans that verify system performance against specifications.
You will build test cases, execute test suites, and document results in our tracking systems, ensuring that defects are identified before deployment and accreditation criteria are met.
We need someone capable of interpreting technical requirements and translating them into measurable test scenarios; managing test data, environments, and automation tools across multiple concurrent builds; and communicating test status and blockers clearly to development and program leadership.
As a key partner to our engineering and compliance teams, you will accelerate our ability to deliver secure, validated software to warfighters, serving as the bridge between code and operational readiness.
Note: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:
• DC/Maryland/Virginia
• Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
• Denver/Colorado Springs, CO
• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
This is a full-time position.
What You'll Do
• Manage onboarding, offboarding, and employment status changes with accuracy and confidentiality.
• Maintain accurate employee records in HRIS platforms (Justworks, Lattice, Ashby) and ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment law.
• Orchestrate benefits enrollments, terminations, open enrollment, and leave of absence tracking (FMLA, ADA, parental leave).
• Serve as primary point of contact for employee inquiries related to benefits, payroll, policies, and employment verifications.
• Partner with IT and Security teams to coordinate access provisioning and deprovisioning, ensuring compliance alignment.
• Contribute to HR process documentation, reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives.
What You Bring
3–5 years of experience in People Operations, HR Specialist, or similar HR support role.
Demonstrated proficiency in HRIS or PEO platforms (Justworks, Lattice, Ashby, Rippling) and comfort working with data.
Hands-on experience managing onboarding, offboarding, benefits administration, and leave of absence workflows.
Knowledge of employment law, multi-state compliance, and leave administration (FMLA, ADA).
Experience supporting a remote or hybrid workforce in a fast-paced, distributed environment.
U.S. citizenship required due to government contract requirements; residency in approved hiring hub (DC/Maryland/Virginia, Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill NC, Denver/Colorado Springs CO, or Dallas/Fort Worth TX).
U.S. citizenship is required for this role.
The base salary for this position will fall between $95,000 and $105,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
Success at 2F Looks Like:
• A proactive and solutions oriented mindset
• Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
• Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
• Being team-oriented with a focus on personal responsibility and autonomy
Perks & Benefits:
This role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.
Perks of Joining Our Team:
• Competitive salary
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution
• Comprehensive wellness benefits, including a One Medical membership, mental health resources, family planning support, and more
• Equity incentive plan
• New hire technology and home office stipend
• Annual professional development stipend
• Flexible paid time off, plus all federal holidays
• Generous parental leave
• Flexible remote work opportunities
• Employee referral bonus program
Visit our careers page to learn more.
Who We Are:
Second Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world’s leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they’re needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. Learn more at secondfront.com.
One last thing:
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you ready to join our team:
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
State notices:
Colorado:
In accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.
Maryland:
Under Maryland law, an employer may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination or similar test. An employer who violates this law is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding $100.
Technical Product Marketing Manager
Second Front Systems (2F) is looking for a dynamic Technical Product Marketing Manager to strengthen our platform story, supporting how customers discover, evaluate, and adopt 2F.
You will translate our technical differentiation into clear value for commercial buyers and government mission owners. Operating at the intersection of product marketing and GTM, you’ll build a repeatable launch playbook across our entire product suite: 2F Game Warden, 2F Frontier, and 2F Workshop.
You will create deeply technical content across various mediums, ensuring our field teams and customers are armed with credible forms of proof points. We need someone capable of preserving 2F's unique mission, customer obsession, and competitive edge for each product.
As a key partner to Product Management and Engineering teams, you will adapt narratives to the customer lifecycle context, serving as the primary partner that delivers measurable impact on growth, adoption, and market positioning.
Note: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:
• DC/Maryland/Virginia
• Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
• Denver/Colorado Springs, CO
• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
This is a full-time position.
What You'll Do
• Serve as the go-to positioning authority across Product Marketing, Product Management, Engineering, Designers, and Mission Success to translate customer and market insights into evidence-based product messaging and roadmap recommendations.
• Build hands-on technical assets—including proofs of concept, architecture diagrams, and live demo environments—to establish credibility with technical decision-makers.
• Drive product launches as an integrated system, sequencing field enablement, technical demos, TCO analyses, solution briefs, and digital content against defined readiness and performance metrics.
• Monitor the competitive landscape and equip sales and engineering teams with actionable battlecards, technical objection handling, and product positioning frameworks.
• Partner with broader Marketing to power demand generation campaigns with technically accurate, high-value assets, including research reports and technical white papers.
• Champion 2F’s technical story in analyst briefings, trade shows, customer advisory boards, and industry forums to drive pipeline growth and product adoption.
What You Bring
5-7 years in Product Marketing, Technical Marketing, Solutions Engineering, or Technical Product Management within enterprise software
Hands-on familiarity with DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, or platform engineering workflows, with a proven ability to translate complex technical architectures into compelling buyer narratives
Demonstrated track record of defining, positioning, and launching complex technical products for both technical and non-technical decision-makers
Experience tracking launch adoption, content performance, and GTM pipeline impact using data-driven dashboards
Strong operational backbone with the judgment to separate high-impact strategic priorities from daily noise
Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills with experience delivering executive-level presentations, field enablement, and customer-facing technical content
Ability and willingness to travel regularly for team alignment, customer meetings, and industry events
U.S. citizenship is required for this role.
Preferred
• Prior experience in software engineering, solutions architecture, or developer relations.
• Familiarity with mission-critical B2G SaaS, DoD software acquisition, or enterprise cybersecurity frameworks.
• Experience marketing an integrated product portfolio that combines software automation with edge deployment solutions.
The base salary for this position will fall between $160,000 and $170,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
Success at 2F Looks Like:
• A proactive and solutions oriented mindset
• Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
• Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
• Being team-oriented with a focus on personal responsibility and autonomy
Perks & Benefits:
This role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.
Perks of Joining Our Team:
• Competitive salary
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution
• Comprehensive wellness benefits, including a One Medical membership, mental health resources, family planning support, and more
• Equity incentive plan
• New hire technology and home office stipend
• Annual professional development stipend
• Flexible paid time off, plus all federal holidays
• Generous parental leave
• Flexible remote work opportunities
• Employee referral bonus program
Visit our careers page to learn more.
Who We Are:
Second Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world’s leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they’re needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. Learn more at secondfront.com.
One last thing:
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you ready to join our team:
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
State notices:
Colorado:
In accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.
Maryland:
Under Maryland law, an employer may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination or similar test. An employer who violates this law is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding $100.
Second Front Systems is looking for a customer-obsessed, mission-driven, high-agency Director of Commercial Mission Success to lead and scale our Commercial Mission Success organization.
As the leader of the team at the frontline of the Second Front customer journey, you will own the end-to-end customer experience across our Game Warden portfolio, from contract signature through kickoff, implementation, authorization, steady-state support, and renewal. You will build and develop a high-performing team of Mission Success Managers, define the playbooks and metrics that drive customer outcomes, and serve as the first point of escalation for our accounts.
As a senior leader who partners with nearly every function at Second Front, including Sales, Engineering, Security, Product, and Finance, you will ensure that customers achieve authorization and secure deployment of their SaaS solutions, and that the voice of the customer, and the missions they support, shapes how we build and grow.
Note: Candidates must reside in one of our approved hiring hubs:
• DC/Maryland/Virginia
• Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
• Denver/Colorado Springs, CO
• Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
What You'll Do
Lead, hire, coach, and develop a team of Mission Success Managers, setting clear expectations, portfolio assignments, and career growth paths.
Own Commercial Mission Success strategy and operating model, including customer segmentation, coverage models, and team capacity planning as the business scales.
Define and own key customer health and retention metrics (e.g., gross and net revenue retention, time-to-ATO, customer health scores, CSAT/NPS) and report on them to executive leadership.
Build repeatable, scalable playbooks for kickoff, onboarding, implementation, ATO/FedRAMP navigation, QBRs, and renewals.
Serve as a critical sponsor for customers, building trusted relationships with customer leadership.
Act as the senior escalation point for high-severity customer issues, driving cross-functional resolution with Support, Engineering, and Security leadership.
Partner with Sales and Finance to own the renewal forecast and drive expansion and upsell strategy across the portfolio.
Drive tooling and process maturity across Salesforce, Jira, and customer health systems to improve visibility and operational rigor.
What You Bring
10+ years of leadership experience, building and managing teams, preferably in customer/mission success, or technical delivery supporting PaaS or cloud infrastructure in government contracts.
Direct experience working in or supporting the Department of War (DoW) or Federal Civilian agencies.
Proven track record owning retention and expansion outcomes, including renewal forecasting and revenue targets.
Working knowledge of Authority to Operate (ATO), FedRAMP, or equivalent compliance frameworks.
Strong understanding of IaaS, PaaS, and/or SaaS delivery models.
Executive presence and the ability to manage complex relationships across technical, non-technical, and senior government stakeholders.
Experience designing and scaling customer success processes, metrics, and playbooks.
U.S. citizenship is required for this role.
Preferred
Experience leading customer success teams in an IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS environment.
Experience scaling a team or function in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment.
Experience with customer success platforms alongside Salesforce and Jira.
Active security clearance or eligibility to obtain one.
The base salary for this position will fall between $170,000 and $195,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. Furthermore, this opportunity includes potential eligibility for equity awards and discretionary bonuses, rounding out a comprehensive total rewards offering.
Success at 2F Looks Like:
• A proactive and solutions oriented mindset
• Viewing obstacles as opportunities for growth
• Having a bias toward action and tangible, measurable results
• Being team-oriented with a focus on personal responsibility and autonomy
Perks & Benefits:
This role is a full time position. As a public benefit corporation, we’re a team of purpose-driven trailblazers transforming the future of U.S. national security. We hire the best to do their best and, as such, we are committed to providing the perks and benefits you need to be successful—both in- and outside the workplace.
Perks of Joining Our Team:
• Competitive salary
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) with a 3% company contribution
• Comprehensive wellness benefits, including a One Medical membership, mental health resources, family planning support, and more
• Equity incentive plan
• New hire technology and home office stipend
• Annual professional development stipend
• Flexible paid time off, plus all federal holidays
• Generous parental leave
• Flexible remote work opportunities
• Employee referral bonus program
Visit our careers page to learn more.
Who We Are:
Second Front Systems (2F) is a public-benefit software company powering software for the free world. We eliminate the friction that slows innovation, enabling faster, more secure development and deployment of software across government and regulated networks. Built by national security veterans and backed by top-tier venture capital, our platform is trusted by the world’s leading organizations to cut deployment timelines from years to weeks. We move fast, solve hard problems, and deliver trusted capabilities where they’re needed most. Our work strengthens global security and gives the United States and its allies a lasting competitive advantage. Learn more at secondfront.com.
One last thing:
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Are you ready to join our team:
To apply, click the “Apply for This Job” button at the top or bottom of this page and complete the application form. This position will remain open until filled, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
State notices:
Colorado:
In accordance with Colorado law, applicants may redact their date of birth, dates of attendance, and dates of graduation from any uploaded documents.
Maryland:
Under Maryland law, an employer may not require or demand, as a condition of employment, prospective employment, or continued employment, that an individual submit to or take a polygraph examination or similar test. An employer who violates this law is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding $100.
About Second Front Systems
Second Front is a venture-backed company on a mission to strengthen global security by accelerating access to emerging technologies for the U.S. and our allies. Founded by Marines who saw firsthand how outdated government acquisition systems held back frontline personnel, we help commercial software companies get mission-critical technology into the hands of government users faster — backed by FedRAMP High, DoD IL2–IL6/JWICS, GovRAMP, UK MOD, and NATO authorizations. Our team is mission-obsessed, collaborative, and decisive, and we’re proud to be Great Place to Work® certified.
About the Role
Second Front Systems is looking for a technically credible, commercially astute, and operationally independent Solutions Engineer to strengthen our EMEA commercial organization.
This role sits at the intersection of engineering, mission, and government customers — translating technical architecture decisions into deployable, warfighter-ready capabilities while keeping pace with customer accreditation and deployment timelines. You’ll own the technical sales path from discovery through validation and close across EMEA: assessing customer environments, developing architectures, running demonstrations and evaluations, and clearing technical blockers so qualified opportunities move to close with clear technical assumptions and minimal delivery risk.
We need someone who can qualify complex enterprise opportunities across application, infrastructure, security, and deployment fit; develop credible technical designs that reflect realistic cloud, network, identity, and sovereign-residency constraints; and troubleshoot across application and infrastructure layers during pre-sales engagements and proofs of value. As a key partner to the commercial team, the Head of EMEA, Platform Engineering, and customers, you’ll build technical relationships with hyperscalers, cloud providers, primes, and systems integrators, support partner enablement, and deliver clean handoffs to implementation — serving as the voice of technical feasibility throughout the sales cycle.
Work authorization & location: Candidates must hold the right to work in the EU and be based in the EU (Remote). Residency is required in whichever EU country you’re working from.
Employment type & schedule: This is a full-time, remote position based in the EU, with compensation stated in EUR. Willingness to travel across EMEA is expected.
What You’ll Do
Own technical discovery and qualification for EMEA opportunities, assessing application, infrastructure, security, integration, and deployment fit.
Develop proposed architectures covering cloud, networking, identity, integrations, data residency, sovereignty, and security, tailored to each customer’s environment.
Deliver demonstrations, run proofs of value, and facilitate approved non-production evaluations for software vendors, defense-tech companies, regulated enterprises, and government customers.
Identify technical blockers, dependencies, product gaps, and delivery assumptions before commitments are made, coordinating with Platform Engineering on feasibility and effort.
Support technical RFI/RFP, security, partner, and architecture responses; represent Second Front at customer workshops and technical events.
Build reusable demos, reference architectures, and discovery materials, and maintain clear technical notes on active opportunities.
Feed recurring field requirements back to Product and Engineering, and deliver clean technical handoffs to Platform Engineering, implementation, and delivery teams after close.
Partner with the commercial team and Head of EMEA through qualification, proposal, and procurement, supporting negotiation on technical matters.
Translate customer accreditation and security requirements into realistic deployment schedules, working with Platform Engineering to resolve conflicts between engineering timelines and customer go-live dates.
Align engineering roadmap priorities with regional customer needs and accreditation windows (e.g., NATO, UK MOD, or equivalent sovereign/government certification frameworks), sequencing feature delivery accordingly.
Broker resolution of technical-feasibility and resource-allocation conflicts between Product/Platform Engineering and customer security officers, so accreditation blockers get resolved before they delay field deployment.
What You Bring
3+ years in a technical customer-facing role — solutions engineering, sales engineering, solutions architecture, or technical pre-sales.
At least 2 years of hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, and strong cloud infrastructure knowledge.
Hands-on familiarity with containers, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, networking, IAM, and APIs.
Working ability with scripting or software development, sufficient to troubleshoot integrations, applications, and cloud environments.
Ability to develop credible technical designs without creating unsupported bespoke commitments.
Ability to troubleshoot technical issues across application and infrastructure layers during evaluations.
Strong written and verbal technical communication, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, security teams, architects, procurement stakeholders, and government customers.
Fluent English, existing work authorization (residency-based) in your EU country of employment, and willingness to travel across EMEA.
Preferred Qualifications
Prior experience in defense, govtech, or another regulated industry, particularly with sovereign cloud, GovCloud, or classified/accredited environments.
Familiarity with government or allied accreditation and certification frameworks (e.g., NATO, UK MOD, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, CRA, NIS-2, C5, or national equivalents).
Relevant cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Fluency in an additional European language relevant to a priority EMEA market.
Experience supporting partner/channel enablement with hyperscalers, primes, or systems integrators.
Compensation & Benefits
The base salary for this position will fall between €110,000 and €130,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. This role is also eligible for equity awards and discretionary bonuses as part of a broader total rewards package.
Equal Opportunity
Second Front Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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You’ll own the technical sales path from discovery through validation and close across EMEA: assessing customer environments, developing architectures, running demonstrations and evaluations, and clearing technical blockers so qualified opportunities move to close with clear technical assumptions and minimal delivery risk.\n\nWe need someone who can qualify complex enterprise opportunities across application, infrastructure, security, and deployment fit; develop credible technical designs that reflect realistic cloud, network, identity, and sovereign-residency constraints; and troubleshoot across application and infrastructure layers during pre-sales engagements and proofs of value. As a key partner to the commercial team, the Head of EMEA, Platform Engineering, and customers, you’ll build technical relationships with hyperscalers, cloud providers, primes, and systems integrators, support partner enablement, and deliver clean handoffs to implementation — serving as the voice of technical feasibility throughout the sales cycle.\n\nWork authorization & location: Candidates must hold the right to work in the EU and be based in the EU (Remote). Residency is required in whichever EU country you’re working from.\n\nEmployment type & schedule: This is a full-time, remote position based in the EU, with compensation stated in EUR. Willingness to travel across EMEA is expected.\n\n\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\n - Own technical discovery and qualification for EMEA opportunities, assessing application, infrastructure, security, integration, and deployment fit.\n\n - Develop proposed architectures covering cloud, networking, identity, integrations, data residency, sovereignty, and security, tailored to each customer’s environment.\n\n - Deliver demonstrations, run proofs of value, and facilitate approved non-production evaluations for software vendors, defense-tech companies, regulated enterprises, and government customers.\n\n - Identify technical blockers, dependencies, product gaps, and delivery assumptions before commitments are made, coordinating with Platform Engineering on feasibility and effort.\n\n - Support technical RFI/RFP, security, partner, and architecture responses; represent Second Front at customer workshops and technical events.\n\n - Build reusable demos, reference architectures, and discovery materials, and maintain clear technical notes on active opportunities.\n\n - Feed recurring field requirements back to Product and Engineering, and deliver clean technical handoffs to Platform Engineering, implementation, and delivery teams after close.\n\n - Partner with the commercial team and Head of EMEA through qualification, proposal, and procurement, supporting negotiation on technical matters.\n\n - Translate customer accreditation and security requirements into realistic deployment schedules, working with Platform Engineering to resolve conflicts between engineering timelines and customer go-live dates.\n\n - Align engineering roadmap priorities with regional customer needs and accreditation windows (e.g., NATO, UK MOD, or equivalent sovereign/government certification frameworks), sequencing feature delivery accordingly.\n\n - Broker resolution of technical-feasibility and resource-allocation conflicts between Product/Platform Engineering and customer security officers, so accreditation blockers get resolved before they delay field deployment.\n\n\n\nWhat You Bring\n\n - 3+ years in a technical customer-facing role — solutions engineering, sales engineering, solutions architecture, or technical pre-sales.\n\n - At least 2 years of hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, and strong cloud infrastructure knowledge.\n\n - Hands-on familiarity with containers, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, networking, IAM, and APIs.\n\n - Working ability with scripting or software development, sufficient to troubleshoot integrations, applications, and cloud environments.\n\n - Ability to develop credible technical designs without creating unsupported bespoke commitments.\n\n - Ability to troubleshoot technical issues across application and infrastructure layers during evaluations.\n\n - Strong written and verbal technical communication, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, security teams, architects, procurement stakeholders, and government customers.\n\n - Fluent English, existing work authorization (residency-based) in your EU country of employment, and willingness to travel across EMEA.\n\n\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\n - Prior experience in defense, govtech, or another regulated industry, particularly with sovereign cloud, GovCloud, or classified/accredited environments.\n\n - Familiarity with government or allied accreditation and certification frameworks (e.g., NATO, UK MOD, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, CRA, NIS-2, C5, or national equivalents).\n\n - Relevant cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP).\n\n - Fluency in an additional European language relevant to a priority EMEA market.\n\n - Experience supporting partner/channel enablement with hyperscalers, primes, or systems integrators.\n\n\n\nCompensation & Benefits\n\nThe base salary for this position will fall between €110,000 and €130,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. This role is also eligible for equity awards and discretionary bonuses as part of a broader total rewards package.\n\n\n\nEqual Opportunity\n\nSecond Front Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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Second Front is a venture-backed company on a mission to strengthen global security by accelerating access to emerging technologies for the U.S. and our allies. Founded by Marines who saw firsthand how outdated government acquisition systems held back frontline personnel, we help commercial software companies get mission-critical technology into the hands of government users faster — backed by FedRAMP High, DoD IL2–IL6/JWICS, GovRAMP, UK MOD, and NATO authorizations. Our team is mission-obsessed, collaborative, and decisive, and we’re proud to be Great Place to Work® certified.
About the Role
Second Front Systems is looking for an infrastructure-focused, compliance-minded, operationally disciplined Platform Engineer to strengthen our Platform Engineering function across European regulated environments.
This role sits at the intersection of systems, tooling, and engineering — translating infrastructure reliability and deployment velocity into warfighter-ready software delivery. You’ll be responsible for deploying, operating, and maintaining Game Warden across EMEA cloud environments while establishing secure, repeatable platform patterns that satisfy sovereignty and assurance requirements.
You’ll build landing zones and reference architectures using infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native tooling, keeping European deployments aligned with our global platform patterns while preserving accreditation inheritance across target environments. We need someone who can operate cloud-native infrastructure at production scale; build and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability for regulated and potentially air-gapped environments; and produce the technical evidence and documentation needed to support applicable European security, accreditation, and regulatory requirements. As a key partner to our implementation and delivery teams, you’ll prepare production environments and hand them off with complete runbooks and technical evidence — serving as the operational bridge between platform architecture and customer deployment.
Work authorization & location: Candidates must hold citizenship in an EU member state, along with the right to work in the European Union, and be based in the EU (Remote). Unlike some of our other EU-based roles, this position requires citizenship rather than residency alone, given the security clearance and accreditation requirements tied to the systems this role supports. Candidates from any of the 27 EU member states are eligible, and you may be located anywhere in the EU.
Employment type & schedule: This is a full-time, remote position based in the EU, with compensation stated in EUR.
What You’ll Do
Deploy Game Warden and other Second Front products across AWS, Azure, GCP, and sovereign-cloud infrastructure in European regions, to specification.
Architect landing zones that satisfy sovereignty, customer-control, and GDPR requirements without single-vendor lock-in.
Govern Kubernetes, container runtimes, and infrastructure-as-code tooling to enforce repeatability across deployments.
Drive CI/CD, networking, identity, observability, and security controls against target-environment constraints and threat models.
Implement the technical controls and documentation required for EAL, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, NATO, UK MOD, or equivalent customer accreditation regimes.
Translate engineering tooling requirements into platform specifications, ensuring CI/CD, containerization, and accreditation workflows meet time-sensitive delivery windows.
Work with platform and engineering leads to resolve conflicts between automation, hardening, and operational constraints.
Sequence platform rollouts and upgrades to minimize disruption to active development while maintaining compliance posture and system hardening.
What You Bring
5+ years of hands-on platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud infrastructure, SRE, or systems engineering experience in production environments.
Deep fluency with AWS, Azure, GCP, or equivalent cloud platforms operating at scale.
Production-grade Kubernetes and container orchestration experience in live systems.
Hands-on experience writing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
A track record building, securing, and operating CI/CD pipelines under regulatory or high-assurance compliance requirements.
Working knowledge of networking, IAM, SAML/OAuth, APIs, and distributed-systems troubleshooting in production.
Fluent English and a proven ability to collaborate asynchronously across distributed global engineering teams.
EU citizenship (any of the 27 EU member states) and the right to work in the EU.
Preferred Qualifications
Existing government or NATO security clearance, or eligibility to obtain one.
Experience operating in air-gapped, classified, or other high-assurance environments.
Familiarity with EAL/Common Criteria, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, NATO, or UK MOD accreditation processes; and/or familiarity with other frameworks such as NIS-2, CRA, etc.
Proficiency in a systems or scripting language (e.g., Go, Python, or Rust) for building internal tooling.
Compensation & Benefits
The base salary for this position will fall between €120,000 and €140,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. This role is also eligible for equity awards and discretionary bonuses as part of a broader total rewards package.
Equal Opportunity
Second Front Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, except where a specific nationality or citizenship requirement is a genuine and determining condition of the role, as is the case with the EU citizenship requirement above.
","descriptionPlain":"About Second Front Systems\n\nSecond Front is a venture-backed company on a mission to strengthen global security by accelerating access to emerging technologies for the U.S. and our allies. Founded by Marines who saw firsthand how outdated government acquisition systems held back frontline personnel, we help commercial software companies get mission-critical technology into the hands of government users faster — backed by FedRAMP High, DoD IL2–IL6/JWICS, GovRAMP, UK MOD, and NATO authorizations. Our team is mission-obsessed, collaborative, and decisive, and we’re proud to be Great Place to Work® certified.\n\n\n\nAbout the Role\n\nSecond Front Systems is looking for an infrastructure-focused, compliance-minded, operationally disciplined Platform Engineer to strengthen our Platform Engineering function across European regulated environments.\n\nThis role sits at the intersection of systems, tooling, and engineering — translating infrastructure reliability and deployment velocity into warfighter-ready software delivery. You’ll be responsible for deploying, operating, and maintaining Game Warden across EMEA cloud environments while establishing secure, repeatable platform patterns that satisfy sovereignty and assurance requirements.\n\nYou’ll build landing zones and reference architectures using infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native tooling, keeping European deployments aligned with our global platform patterns while preserving accreditation inheritance across target environments. We need someone who can operate cloud-native infrastructure at production scale; build and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability for regulated and potentially air-gapped environments; and produce the technical evidence and documentation needed to support applicable European security, accreditation, and regulatory requirements. As a key partner to our implementation and delivery teams, you’ll prepare production environments and hand them off with complete runbooks and technical evidence — serving as the operational bridge between platform architecture and customer deployment.\n\n\n\nWork authorization & location: Candidates must hold citizenship in an EU member state, along with the right to work in the European Union, and be based in the EU (Remote). Unlike some of our other EU-based roles, this position requires citizenship rather than residency alone, given the security clearance and accreditation requirements tied to the systems this role supports. Candidates from any of the 27 EU member states are eligible, and you may be located anywhere in the EU.\n\n\n\nEmployment type & schedule: This is a full-time, remote position based in the EU, with compensation stated in EUR.\n\n\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\n - Deploy Game Warden and other Second Front products across AWS, Azure, GCP, and sovereign-cloud infrastructure in European regions, to specification.\n\n - Architect landing zones that satisfy sovereignty, customer-control, and GDPR requirements without single-vendor lock-in.\n\n - Govern Kubernetes, container runtimes, and infrastructure-as-code tooling to enforce repeatability across deployments.\n\n - Drive CI/CD, networking, identity, observability, and security controls against target-environment constraints and threat models.\n\n - Implement the technical controls and documentation required for EAL, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, NATO, UK MOD, or equivalent customer accreditation regimes.\n\n - Translate engineering tooling requirements into platform specifications, ensuring CI/CD, containerization, and accreditation workflows meet time-sensitive delivery windows.\n\n - Work with platform and engineering leads to resolve conflicts between automation, hardening, and operational constraints.\n\n - Sequence platform rollouts and upgrades to minimize disruption to active development while maintaining compliance posture and system hardening.\n\n\n\nWhat You Bring\n\n - 5+ years of hands-on platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud infrastructure, SRE, or systems engineering experience in production environments.\n\n - Deep fluency with AWS, Azure, GCP, or equivalent cloud platforms operating at scale.\n\n - Production-grade Kubernetes and container orchestration experience in live systems.\n\n - Hands-on experience writing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.\n\n - A track record building, securing, and operating CI/CD pipelines under regulatory or high-assurance compliance requirements.\n\n - Working knowledge of networking, IAM, SAML/OAuth, APIs, and distributed-systems troubleshooting in production.\n\n - Fluent English and a proven ability to collaborate asynchronously across distributed global engineering teams.\n\n - EU citizenship (any of the 27 EU member states) and the right to work in the EU.\n\n\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\n - Existing government or NATO security clearance, or eligibility to obtain one.\n\n - Experience operating in air-gapped, classified, or other high-assurance environments.\n\n - Familiarity with EAL/Common Criteria, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, NATO, or UK MOD accreditation processes; and/or familiarity with other frameworks such as NIS-2, CRA, etc.\n\n - Proficiency in a systems or scripting language (e.g., Go, Python, or Rust) for building internal tooling.\n\n\n\nCompensation & Benefits\n\nThe base salary for this position will fall between €120,000 and €140,000. Your ultimate compensation will be determined by professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors. This role is also eligible for equity awards and discretionary bonuses as part of a broader total rewards package.\n\n\n\nEqual Opportunity\n\nSecond Front Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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Second Front is a venture-backed company on a mission to strengthen global security by accelerating access to emerging technologies for the U.S. and our allies. Founded by Marines who saw firsthand how outdated government acquisition systems held back frontline personnel, we help commercial software companies get mission-critical technology into the hands of government users faster — backed by FedRAMP High, DoD IL2–IL6/JWICS, GovRAMP, UK MOD, and NATO authorizations. Our team is mission-obsessed, collaborative, and decisive, and we’re proud to be Great Place to Work® certified.
About the Role
Second Front Systems is looking for an organized, detail-oriented, and process-driven Business Operations Specialist to strengthen our regional operations and administrative infrastructure in the Netherlands.
This role sits at the intersection of business operations and people operations. You’ll coordinate employment, IT, and administrative workflows with the Head of EMEA and relevant global teams — translating deployment readiness and resource needs into workforce planning and operational staffing. You’ll own regional coordination, documentation, and issue follow-through across People Operations, Finance, Legal, IT, and Security, making sure deadlines, approvals, and open action items get tracked to completion.
Day to day, that means managing Dutch employment administration (contracts, right-to-work documentation, payroll inputs, leave, pension, and benefits), coordinating with payroll, HR, accounting, legal, and corporate-service providers, and maintaining regional operating records, SOPs, entity documentation, and cost-center information. You’ll act as the primary EMEA back-office point of contact across our Dutch and UK entities — the operational bridge between our regional teams, U.S. shared services, and external European providers.
Work authorization & location: Candidates must hold the right to work in the Netherlands and be based in the Netherlands (Remote).
Employment type & schedule: This position may start part-time with the opportunity to grow into full-time, and may be structured as either an employee contract or an independent services/contractor agreement — the specific arrangement, weekly hours, and schedule will be confirmed during the offer process and set out in the engagement contract. Compensation for a part-time or hourly arrangement will be pro-rated accordingly.
What You’ll Do
Coordinate employment, IT, legal, and administrative workflows across EMEA operations, U.S. shared services, and European providers on a regular monthly cadence.
Administer Dutch employment processes: contracts, right-to-work verification, payroll inputs, leave, pension, and benefits, in line with local statutory requirements.
Track external provider deliverables, requests, approvals, and deadlines through to completion; maintain SOPs so the work is repeatable and audit-ready.
Coordinate personnel-security clearance administration between EMEA, U.S. Security, NATO, and customer programs, and flag anything blocking accreditation.
Compile the entity and cost-center data needed for consolidated EMEA reporting, and support vendor onboarding and purchasing approval workflows.
Document and maintain processes that turn recurring administrative tasks into repeatable regional operations with clear ownership.
Translate business unit hiring needs into timelines and skill profiles aligned with mission schedules and customer accreditation gates.
Help resolve misalignment between finance, program management, and HR systems, and keep budget execution in sync with onboarding and deployment timelines.
Partner with operations leadership and People Ops on headcount allocation, role structure, and retention decisions during contract transitions.
What You Bring
3–5+ years of experience in business operations, People Operations, HR operations, or cross-functional subsidiary administration.
Based in the Netherlands, with demonstrated experience supporting Dutch employment administration, payroll coordination, and local HR/benefits provider relationships.
A track record of coordinating external payroll processors, HR platforms, accounting firms, legal counsel, and corporate service providers.
Experience managing employment across multiple countries, legal entities, and contractor models, including employer-of-record arrangements.
Demonstrated discipline in maintaining organized systems for confidential employment records, legal documents, and company data.
Fluent written and spoken English for stakeholder coordination and documentation.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting a U.S.-headquartered company through European subsidiaries or Dutch BV entity operations.
Compensation & Benefits
The full-time-equivalent (FTE) base salary range for this position is €65,000–€78,000 per year. If this role is engaged on a part-time or hourly basis, pay will be pro-rated from this FTE range and confirmed as part of the offer/contract. Actual compensation will depend on professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors, and this role may also be eligible for equity awards and discretionary bonuses as part of a broader total rewards package.
Equal Opportunity
Second Front Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, ran status, or disability status.
","descriptionPlain":"About Second Front Systems\n\nSecond Front is a venture-backed company on a mission to strengthen global security by accelerating access to emerging technologies for the U.S. and our allies. Founded by Marines who saw firsthand how outdated government acquisition systems held back frontline personnel, we help commercial software companies get mission-critical technology into the hands of government users faster — backed by FedRAMP High, DoD IL2–IL6/JWICS, GovRAMP, UK MOD, and NATO authorizations. Our team is mission-obsessed, collaborative, and decisive, and we’re proud to be Great Place to Work® certified.\n\n\n\nAbout the Role\n\nSecond Front Systems is looking for an organized, detail-oriented, and process-driven Business Operations Specialist to strengthen our regional operations and administrative infrastructure in the Netherlands.\n\nThis role sits at the intersection of business operations and people operations. You’ll coordinate employment, IT, and administrative workflows with the Head of EMEA and relevant global teams — translating deployment readiness and resource needs into workforce planning and operational staffing. You’ll own regional coordination, documentation, and issue follow-through across People Operations, Finance, Legal, IT, and Security, making sure deadlines, approvals, and open action items get tracked to completion.\n\nDay to day, that means managing Dutch employment administration (contracts, right-to-work documentation, payroll inputs, leave, pension, and benefits), coordinating with payroll, HR, accounting, legal, and corporate-service providers, and maintaining regional operating records, SOPs, entity documentation, and cost-center information. You’ll act as the primary EMEA back-office point of contact across our Dutch and UK entities — the operational bridge between our regional teams, U.S. shared services, and external European providers.\n\n\n\nWork authorization & location: Candidates must hold the right to work in the Netherlands and be based in the Netherlands (Remote).\n\n\nEmployment type & schedule: This position may start part-time with the opportunity to grow into full-time, and may be structured as either an employee contract or an independent services/contractor agreement — the specific arrangement, weekly hours, and schedule will be confirmed during the offer process and set out in the engagement contract. 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Second Front is a venture-backed company on a mission to strengthen global security by accelerating access to emerging technologies for the U.S. and our allies. Founded by Marines who saw firsthand how outdated government acquisition systems held back frontline personnel, we help commercial software companies get mission-critical technology into the hands of government users faster — backed by FedRAMP High, DoD IL2–IL6/JWICS, GovRAMP, UK MOD, and NATO authorizations. Our team is mission-obsessed, collaborative, and decisive, and we’re proud to be Great Place to Work® certified.
About the Role
Second Front Systems is seeking a hunter-oriented, market-signal-driven, highly disciplined Strategic Business Development Lead to anchor our EMEA commercial organization as our inaugural dedicated hire for continental Europe. This is an individual-contributor role reporting directly to the Head of EMEA.
You’ll be operating in a nascent market with no inherited playbook. You will be responsible for creating qualified pipeline, opening target accounts, qualifying buying paths, and closing net-new deals across commercial software vendors, government customers, and regulated enterprises. You’ll pressure-test our target customer profile and buying paths through direct prospecting, named-account work, and live opportunities — identifying the lighthouse customers that establish credible European proof points and unlock a repeatable commercial motion across priority continental markets.
We’re looking for a zero-to-one player who can map mission needs, buyers, budgets, procurement routes, and decision criteria in government and defense pursuits; who can tell the difference between genuine revenue opportunity and mere access or activity; and who brings real discipline to pipeline management, account planning, and forecasting. In short: you’ll be the organization’s primary route to European market entry and scaled commercial revenue.
Work authorization & location: This position requires EU residency with existing, valid work authorization. Second Front cannot sponsor candidates at this time. We’re hiring EU-wide for this role (candidates based in the Netherlands or Denmark are of particular interest, but we welcome applicants anywhere in the EU).
Employment type & schedule: This is a full-time, remote position based in the EU, with compensation designated in EUR. Regular travel across continental Europe should be expected.
What You’ll Do
Own opportunities from initial contact through contract signature. The hard part: qualifying budget and procurement authority before investing in discovery.
Build a qualified pipeline across commercial software vendors, government entities, and regulated enterprises. The hard part: telling procurement-ready leads apart from exploratory inquiries.
Run named-account coverage through direct prospecting, referrals, and partner channels. The hard part: keeping account discipline across overlapping routes to the same buyer.
Map government and defense pursuits — mission needs, buyer roles, budget cycles, procurement vehicles, and decision criteria. The hard part: validating those criteria before discovery even begins.
Identify the lighthouse customers in Europe that establish accreditable proof points and unlock adjacent accounts. The hard part: qualifying replicability before committing to a pilot.
Validate ideal customer profiles, pricing, and buying paths through live opportunities. The hard part: separating real signal from noise in early-stage feedback.
Assess routes to revenue via hyperscalers, sovereign cloud providers, primes, and systems integrators. The hard part: mapping technical fit to what a given market actually needs.
Coordinate with our nascent continental technical and delivery teams as qualified opportunities move through discovery and evaluation. The hard part: keeping deal timelines realistic against engineering dependencies.
Translate quarterly business targets into regional deployment roadmaps. The hard part: accounting for export-control review and customer security-clearance gates.
Broker alignment between the sales pipeline and operations capacity. The hard part: surfacing resource constraints early enough that they don’t derail contract fulfillment or accreditation schedules.
Keep go-to-market messaging in sync with our compliance posture. The hard part: making sure proposals reflect our actual system hardening and government contract standards, not just the pitch.
What You Bring
7+ years of business development, enterprise sales, or capture experience, including complex B2B and B2G technology sales across European markets.
A demonstrated track record of personally opening accounts and creating net-new pipeline in commercial software, cloud, infrastructure, or technology deals spanning commercial and government buyers.
A strong hunter profile, with evidence of closing complex deals and distinguishing genuine revenue opportunity from access and activity.
Experience selling technically demanding enterprise products to both commercial and government customers.
Commercial exposure to European defense, govtech, or regulated industries — or to technology vendors selling into those markets.
Proven ability to operate across multiple European procurement cultures and work fluently with commercial executives, technical evaluators, and government decision-makers.
A credible network in at least one relevant European ecosystem, with clear capacity to expand beyond it.
Strong CRM, qualification, account-planning, and forecasting discipline.
Fluent English; willingness to travel regularly across continental Europe.
EU residency with valid work authorization.
Preferred Qualifications
Existing relationships within the European defense, NATO, or allied-government ecosystem.
Fluency in an additional European language relevant to a priority continental market (e.g., French, German, Dutch, or a Nordic language).
Prior experience as an early or first commercial hire opening a new market or region for a startup or scale-up.
Existing government security clearance or eligibility.
Compensation & Benefits
The base salary for this position will fall between €150,000 €180,000. This is a quota-carrying role with a variable component tied to revenue targets and first-year MBOs; total on-target earnings (OTE) will be finalized during the interview process based on the final compensation structure. Actual base compensation will depend on professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors, and this role is also eligible for equity awards and discretionary bonuses as part of a broader total rewards package.
Equal Opportunity
Second Front Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
","descriptionPlain":"About Second Front Systems\n\nSecond Front is a venture-backed company on a mission to strengthen global security by accelerating access to emerging technologies for the U.S. and our allies. Founded by Marines who saw firsthand how outdated government acquisition systems held back frontline personnel, we help commercial software companies get mission-critical technology into the hands of government users faster — backed by FedRAMP High, DoD IL2–IL6/JWICS, GovRAMP, UK MOD, and NATO authorizations. Our team is mission-obsessed, collaborative, and decisive, and we’re proud to be Great Place to Work® certified.\n\n\n\nAbout the Role\n\nSecond Front Systems is seeking a hunter-oriented, market-signal-driven, highly disciplined Strategic Business Development Lead to anchor our EMEA commercial organization as our inaugural dedicated hire for continental Europe. This is an individual-contributor role reporting directly to the Head of EMEA.\n\nYou’ll be operating in a nascent market with no inherited playbook. You will be responsible for creating qualified pipeline, opening target accounts, qualifying buying paths, and closing net-new deals across commercial software vendors, government customers, and regulated enterprises. You’ll pressure-test our target customer profile and buying paths through direct prospecting, named-account work, and live opportunities — identifying the lighthouse customers that establish credible European proof points and unlock a repeatable commercial motion across priority continental markets.\n\nWe’re looking for a zero-to-one player who can map mission needs, buyers, budgets, procurement routes, and decision criteria in government and defense pursuits; who can tell the difference between genuine revenue opportunity and mere access or activity; and who brings real discipline to pipeline management, account planning, and forecasting. In short: you’ll be the organization’s primary route to European market entry and scaled commercial revenue.\n\n\n\nWork authorization & location: This position requires EU residency with existing, valid work authorization. Second Front cannot sponsor candidates at this time. We’re hiring EU-wide for this role (candidates based in the Netherlands or Denmark are of particular interest, but we welcome applicants anywhere in the EU).\n\n\n\nEmployment type & schedule: This is a full-time, remote position based in the EU, with compensation designated in EUR. Regular travel across continental Europe should be expected.\n\n\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\n - Own opportunities from initial contact through contract signature. The hard part: qualifying budget and procurement authority before investing in discovery.\n\n - Build a qualified pipeline across commercial software vendors, government entities, and regulated enterprises. The hard part: telling procurement-ready leads apart from exploratory inquiries.\n\n - Run named-account coverage through direct prospecting, referrals, and partner channels. The hard part: keeping account discipline across overlapping routes to the same buyer.\n\n - Map government and defense pursuits — mission needs, buyer roles, budget cycles, procurement vehicles, and decision criteria. The hard part: validating those criteria before discovery even begins.\n\n - Identify the lighthouse customers in Europe that establish accreditable proof points and unlock adjacent accounts. The hard part: qualifying replicability before committing to a pilot.\n\n - Validate ideal customer profiles, pricing, and buying paths through live opportunities. The hard part: separating real signal from noise in early-stage feedback.\n\n - Assess routes to revenue via hyperscalers, sovereign cloud providers, primes, and systems integrators. The hard part: mapping technical fit to what a given market actually needs.\n\n - Coordinate with our nascent continental technical and delivery teams as qualified opportunities move through discovery and evaluation. The hard part: keeping deal timelines realistic against engineering dependencies.\n\n - Translate quarterly business targets into regional deployment roadmaps. The hard part: accounting for export-control review and customer security-clearance gates.\n\n - Broker alignment between the sales pipeline and operations capacity. The hard part: surfacing resource constraints early enough that they don’t derail contract fulfillment or accreditation schedules.\n\n - Keep go-to-market messaging in sync with our compliance posture. The hard part: making sure proposals reflect our actual system hardening and government contract standards, not just the pitch.\n\n\n\nWhat You Bring\n\n - 7+ years of business development, enterprise sales, or capture experience, including complex B2B and B2G technology sales across European markets.\n\n - A demonstrated track record of personally opening accounts and creating net-new pipeline in commercial software, cloud, infrastructure, or technology deals spanning commercial and government buyers.\n\n - A strong hunter profile, with evidence of closing complex deals and distinguishing genuine revenue opportunity from access and activity.\n\n - Experience selling technically demanding enterprise products to both commercial and government customers.\n\n - Commercial exposure to European defense, govtech, or regulated industries — or to technology vendors selling into those markets.\n\n - Proven ability to operate across multiple European procurement cultures and work fluently with commercial executives, technical evaluators, and government decision-makers.\n\n - A credible network in at least one relevant European ecosystem, with clear capacity to expand beyond it.\n\n - Strong CRM, qualification, account-planning, and forecasting discipline.\n\n - Fluent English; willingness to travel regularly across continental Europe.\n\n - EU residency with valid work authorization.\n\n\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\n - Existing relationships within the European defense, NATO, or allied-government ecosystem.\n\n - Fluency in an additional European language relevant to a priority continental market (e.g., French, German, Dutch, or a Nordic language).\n\n - Prior experience as an early or first commercial hire opening a new market or region for a startup or scale-up.\n\n - Existing government security clearance or eligibility.\n\n\n\nCompensation & Benefits\n\nThe base salary for this position will fall between €150,000 €180,000. This is a quota-carrying role with a variable component tied to revenue targets and first-year MBOs; total on-target earnings (OTE) will be finalized during the interview process based on the final compensation structure. Actual base compensation will depend on professional background, technical proficiency, seniority, and regional cost factors, and this role is also eligible for equity awards and discretionary bonuses as part of a broader total rewards package.\n\n\n\nEqual Opportunity\n\nSecond Front Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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