Mid Software Engineer at KBR
Colorado Springs, CO
$115,900–$173,800from the description
Jul 22, 2026
Colorado Springs, CO
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A mid-level software engineering role focused on building and maintaining containerized, cloud-native systems for U.S. Space Force operations. Day-to-day work spans CI/CD pipeline development, Kubernetes/Docker cluster management, GitOps-based deployment automation, and DevSecOps practices across multiple languages and frameworks. The role suits developers with solid full-stack and infrastructure experience who hold, or can obtain, a Secret clearance.
Senior level · 5+ years · Colorado Springs, CO · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Mid, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $137,233 (middle half $108,638–$170,529). 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 (8)
The title says 'Mid Software Engineer' but the requirements gate on 5 years of experience with web-based applications and Kubernetes/Docker, and the scope (end-to-end lifecycle ownership, DevSecOps architecture, multi-stack delivery for a U.S. Space Force mission) is consistent with Senior-level work. Seniority is assessed as Senior despite the Mid advertised title.
A Secret clearance (or above) is explicitly required in the Qualifications section.
Terraform appears in the 'Why Join Us' narrative describing the team's stack rather than in the formal Required section; it is marked as preferred. The posting does reference IaC/CaC familiarity in the responsibilities, but no specific tool is hard-gated in the Required block.
The compensation range ($115,900–$173,800/year) is explicitly stated as applicable to Colorado Springs, CO only; actual compensation for other locations may differ.
The role is a strong DevSecOps/platform engineering hybrid. The alt SOC (15-1244) was considered given the infrastructure and operations emphasis, but the primary day-to-day work — writing application code across multiple languages, building CI/CD pipelines, and shipping containerized software — points to Software Developers (15-1252).
Unit testing tools Vitest, Jest, Cypress, and Playwright are listed together as alternatives in the Required section; Vitest is used as the primary name with the others captured as alternatives.
AWS S3 is called out explicitly by name in the Required section alongside the broader AWS Cloud Services reference, so both are captured as separate required skills.
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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