Data Engineer at Clarity Innovations
Hurlburt Field, FL
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Jul 5, 2026
Hurlburt Field, FL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role is embedded within Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field, Florida, supporting data governance and modernization efforts. Day-to-day work centers on building and maintaining ETL pipelines, managing SQL and NoSQL databases, configuring analytic frameworks, and integrating complex data from diverse sources across cloud environments. It suits engineers with hands-on experience in distributed systems, data pipeline architecture, and API-driven development who hold or can obtain a Secret clearance.
Mid level · 1+ years · Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Mid.
“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
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 (8)
The posting is titled 'Senior Data Engineer' but requires only a minimum of 1 year of experience — far below what a Senior role typically demands. The actual requirements support a Mid-level classification at most.
A Bachelor's degree in a STEM field is listed as a hard requirement in the Requirements section, though preference is given to Computer Science and Software Engineering.
A Secret clearance is explicitly required to start. TS/SCI eligibility is listed under Preferred Qualifications and is not a hard gate.
The specific data tools (MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j, GraphDB, OrientDB, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Hive, Pig, HDInsight, Azure, Google Cloud, AWS) appear in the responsibilities/task narrative rather than a formal requirements section; they are treated as preferred/stack context rather than hard gates.
Palantir Envision and MSS familiarity are explicitly listed under Preferred Qualifications.
The role is on-site at Hurlburt Field, FL (AFSOC), embedded within the command — no remote option is indicated.
SOC classification is a close call between 15-1243 (Database Architects, for the ETL/pipeline/data modeling focus) and 15-1252 (Software Developers, for the API integration and programming emphasis); 15-1243 was chosen as the primary given the dominant data engineering and pipeline architecture framing.
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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