Data Engineer at Clarity Innovations
Hurlburt Field, FL
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Jul 12, 2026
Hurlburt Field, FL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An embedded data engineering role supporting a U.S. Air Force special operations command at a Florida military installation. Day-to-day work centers on building and maintaining ETL pipelines, designing data architectures, and integrating data from relational and NoSQL sources using tools such as Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, and cloud platforms including Azure and AWS. Suited to candidates with a STEM background, hands-on database and distributed systems experience, and an active or obtainable security clearance.
Mid level · 1+ years · Fort Walton Beach-Crestview-Destin, FL · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance
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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 $141,362 (middle half $105,347–$172,205).
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 (10)
The role is on-site at Hurlburt Field, FL (AFSOC), supporting a DoD program — remote work is not indicated.
A Secret clearance is a hard gate; TS/SCI is explicitly preferred but not required.
The degree requirement is a Bachelor's in a STEM field; the JD does not offer an equivalent-experience substitution, so it is treated as a hard requirement.
The 1-year minimum experience floor is unusually low for the technical depth described (ETL pipelines, distributed systems, cloud, ML familiarity); the role is classified Mid based on the breadth and complexity of responsibilities rather than the stated minimum.
Specific database/framework tools (MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j, GraphDB, OrientDB, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Hive, Pig, HDInsight) appear in a task-description/stack-context paragraph rather than a formal requirements section, so they are marked preferred. The hard gates on SQL and NoSQL are drawn from the explicit Requirements section.
Azure, GCP, and AWS appear together as a cloud administration requirement in the responsibilities section, not the formal Requirements block; marked preferred with the three listed as interchangeable alternatives.
Envision is listed under Preferred Qualifications with only 'Familiarity with' framing.
DoD familiarity is listed as a preferred qualification but names no specific technology or tool, so it is omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
The alt SOC (15-1252 Software Developers) is a genuine runner-up: the role involves significant API development and programming across multiple languages, which overlaps with software development work.
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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