Software Engineer 3 (On-Call) - Linux/Bash/Python/Java/Spring/NoSQL/Helm/Kubernetes/Kafka/Bamboo/Docker
Captivation Software · Annapolis, MD
$130,000
Jun 28, 2026
Annapolis, MD
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
Senior level · 7+ years · National · Top Secret clearance · Full-time
Pay in the description: $130,000–$270,000
“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 $135,980 (middle half $105,210–$171,980). 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 (7)
Location is not specified in the posting; no CBSA or state could be determined. Given the national-security/cleared-work context, the role is likely on-site at a government facility, but this is not confirmed.
The clearance section header reads 'Security Clearance:' but the specific level is not stated. Given the mission-protection/national-security framing and the company's cleared-work focus, a Top Secret clearance is the most reasonable inference; however, the exact level (Secret vs. TS vs. TS/SCI) is not explicitly named in the posting.
Degree requirement is marked None because the JD offers three equivalent paths: Master's + 5 years, Bachelor's + 7 years, or 9 years of experience alone — meaning no degree is strictly required. The minimum experience across all paths is 7 years (Bachelor's path), used as the overall years minimum.
RabbitMQ and Kafka are listed together as messaging framework examples under Required Skills; they are treated as interchangeable alternatives for a single messaging requirement. Similarly, Bamboo and GitLab CI are named as CI/CD tool examples — because they appear under a 'Familiar with' qualifier within the Required Skills section, they are captured as preferred (the CI/CD capability itself is required).
Ansible appears under 'Familiar with IaC principles, methodologies, and tools including Ansible' in the Required Skills section; despite the 'familiar with' softener, its placement in the required block makes it a hard gate.
Loki (log aggregation) and the Atlassian Tool Suite (Jira, Confluence) appear under 'Desired Skills' and are marked preferred.
Requires a Top 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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