Staff Software Engineering Manager at CACI
Aurora, CO
$98,500–$206,800from the description
Jul 26, 2026
Aurora, CO
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A player/coach engineering manager role at CACI, splitting time roughly 25/75 between people leadership and hands-on software development. The manager will lead and mentor a team of software engineers, handle performance reviews and hiring, while also writing production code, contributing to architectural decisions, and driving CI/CD and cloud deployment practices. Requires an active TS/SCI clearance and suits an experienced engineer ready to step into formal management.
Senior level · 8+ years · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
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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 $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). 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 (6)
The posting is titled 'Staff Software Engineering Manager' but the word 'Staff' here appears to be a job-grade label internal to CACI rather than the industry-standard Staff IC band. The role manages a team with direct reports, performance reviews, and hiring authority, making 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers) the best fit, with 15-1252 as a close runner-up given the explicit ~75% hands-on coding expectation.
The 8+ years requirement is stated at the role level (professional software development experience); the 3+ years leadership requirement is a separate gate also at the role level.
Backend framework alternatives (Node.js/Express/NestJS, Python/Django/Flask/FastAPI, Java/Spring Boot/Quarkus, C#/.NET Core, Ruby/Rails, Go/Gin) are listed as interchangeable examples under a single required gate; they are captured as alternatives on one skill entry.
NoSQL tools (MongoDB, Redis) are listed in the required qualifications alongside PostgreSQL as examples of database familiarity; they are captured as separate required skills per their explicit mention in the Requirements section.
Desired/preferred items include direct people-management experience, government program experience, and architectural decision-making contributions — none of these named a concrete technology, so no preferred skill entries were generated for them.
Requires a TS/SCI 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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