Platform Software Engineer - 19312 at Northrop Grumman
Roy, UT
$98,400–$184,200from the description
Jul 28, 2026
Roy, UT
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A platform software engineering role at Northrop Grumman supporting the Sentinel program in Roy, Utah. The engineer will design, deploy, and operate a cloud-native data platform — building infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, containerized services, and observability tooling while collaborating with data engineering and data science teams. Candidates must hold an active DoD Secret clearance and bring solid hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure automation.
Senior level · 5+ years · Ogden-Clearfield, UT · Secret clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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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 $112,296 (middle half $88,576–$146,860). 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 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
This is a dual-level posting (T03 / T04), mapped to Senior Principal and Principal titles. The salary ranges are stated separately: $98,400–$147,600 for the primary (T03) level and $122,800–$184,200 for the secondary (T04) level; the offered comp fields reflect the full combined span across both levels.
The degree requirement is effectively None: the JD explicitly allows 4 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree at both levels, making the degree substitutable rather than a hard gate.
Total years minimum is set to 5 (the T03 floor with a Bachelor's), the lowest qualifying threshold stated.
The role sits at the boundary between software development (writing IaC, pipelines, automation code) and infrastructure/systems administration (operating cloud environments). The primary day-to-day work — authoring Terraform, building CI/CD pipelines, and developing platform automation — tips it toward Software Developers (15-1252), but 15-1244 is a credible alternative given the operational and infrastructure-administration responsibilities.
Python, Bash, Go, and PowerShell are listed together as interchangeable scripting/automation options; Python is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
GitLab CI is listed first among CI/CD tool examples; GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and Jenkins are captured as alternatives on that single skill.
Airflow appears in both the required responsibilities narrative (as an orchestration example) and the preferred qualifications; it is marked preferred since it appears as a parenthetical example in the body and is explicitly listed under Preferred Qualifications.
Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg are listed as lakehouse architecture examples under Preferred Qualifications and are marked preferred accordingly.
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.
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