Software Engineer – Automation

Who is Brightpath Technologies? We are a technology solutions firm headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, with a strong presence across the United States. Unified by a shared passion for solving complicated problems, our people are our greatest asset. We use technology as a tool to bridge the gap between strategy and execution, powered by the knowledge, skills, and the expertise of our teams, who all have unique perspectives and years of experience across multiple industries. We’re bold, smart, agile, and fun. What does Brightpath Technologies do? Brightpath Technologies helps organizations unlock value from existing assets by leveraging cutting-edge technology to create additional revenue streams and new lines of business. We connect strategy, business solutions, products, and services to transform and grow companies. Why Brightpath Technologies? At Brightpath Technologies, we believe in the power of possibility and are passionate about bringing it to life. Whether you join our bustling product division, our multifaceted services team or you want to grow your career in human resources, your ability to make an impact is amplified when you join one of our teams. You’ll focus on solving unique business problems while gaining hands-on experience with the world’s best technology. We believe in unique perspectives and build teams of people with diverse skillsets and backgrounds. At Brightpath Technologies, you’ll have the opportunity to work with multiple clients and teams, such as data science and product development, all while learning, growing, and developing new solutions. We guarantee you won’t find a better place to work and thrive than at Brightpath Technologies. In This Role As a Software Engineer – Automation , you will design, build, and maintain scalable automation solutions that improve operational readiness, data validation, and engineering workflow efficiency. You will help transform manual, spreadsheet-driven, and ad hoc processes into reliable software-based workflows by integrating data from multiple sources, applying validation logic, generating actionable reporting, and supporting human review processes where appropriate. This role requires a strong engineering mindset, the ability to work through ambiguous business and operational challenges, and experience developing automation tools, backend systems, and data processing solutions. You will collaborate closely with engineering, operations, and program stakeholders to create trusted, maintainable, and scalable automation capabilities that drive efficiency and operational excellence. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain automation pipelines that streamline operational, validation, and engineering workflows. Analyze business and operational requirements and translate manual processes into scalable technical solutions. Integrate and consolidate data from databases, APIs, work tracking systems, spreadsheets, document repositories, and other enterprise data sources. Build software solutions that ingest, normalize, validate, and report on operational and telemetry-related data. Develop reusable validation frameworks, quality checks, and reporting components that can be leveraged across multiple workflows. Automate manual review and approval processes while maintaining appropriate human oversight and governance controls. Create reliable scripts, services, and tools with robust logging, monitoring, error handling, retry mechanisms, and auditability. Produce technical specifications, implementation plans, test strategies, and supporting documentation. Enhance and maintain existing automation tools to align with evolving business requirements and operational standards. Conduct unit testing, integration testing, system validation, and post-deployment verification activities. Troubleshoot issues across both modern and legacy systems, identify root causes, and implement long-term solutions. Partner with engineering, operations, and program stakeholders to ensure automation outputs are accurate, actionable, and operationally effective. Support the development of repeatable reporting pipelines, operational readiness tooling, and data quality verification processes. Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related technical field. 5+ years of software engineering experience using Python, C#, PowerShell, or other automation-focused programming languages. 3+ years of experience building automation pipelines, backend tools, data workflows, system integrations, or internal engineering platforms. 3+ years of experience working with structured and semi-structured data sources, including SQL/KQL query results, APIs, JSON, CSV files, logs, and spreadsheets. Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, software design principles, and maintainable coding practices. Experience integrating with databases, enterprise systems, APIs, work tracking tools, and other operational data sources. Experience developing validation frameworks, dat