Senior Software Engineer (Reston or Cambridge) at Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Nashville, TN
$121,400–$218,600from the description
Jun 29, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on managing and evolving a cloud storage platform (NetStorage) within a public sector context. Day-to-day work spans design, development, testing, and operational support of the storage ecosystem, including integrating it into government enterprise environments and building tooling and test frameworks. Suits an experienced systems engineer with a background in NoSQL databases, Linux, scripting, and cloud storage concepts who holds or recently held a US government Secret clearance.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
Location is unspecified in the posting; Akamai's FlexBase program supports remote, in-office, or hybrid work, so remote=true is a reasonable interpretation, but candidates should confirm the specific arrangement.
The clearance requirement is stated as maintaining (or having maintained within the past 24 months) eligibility for USG Secret information via a Tier 3 background investigation — this is treated as a hard gate on Secret-level clearance eligibility, not active possession of a clearance.
The degree requirement ('Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field') is stated alongside the 5-year experience requirement with no 'or equivalent experience' escape clause, so it is treated as a hard requirement.
Git and Perforce are listed together as version control options ('git/Stash and Perforce'); they appear to be used in parallel rather than as true substitutes, so both are captured as separate required skills.
Shell/Perl/Python are listed as interchangeable scripting language options ('one or more'); Shell is used as the primary name with Perl and Python as alternatives.
Cloud storage concepts and data management/replication concepts are mentioned as required familiarity but name no specific technology or tool, so they are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
The role blends software development (design, build, testing frameworks) with systems administration and storage operations, making the SOC classification a genuine judgment call between Software Developers (15-1252) and Network/Systems Administrators (15-1244); the development and engineering framing is the stronger signal.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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